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Political Parties: Governments
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Political parties are voluntary organizations that link the people and their government. Parties recruit candidates and campaign to elect them to public office, and they mobilize people to participate in selecting government leaders.
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The Democrats under Jackson ... made permanent a fixture of political parties seen today: the spoils system. Under this policy, Jackson cleared out the "dead wood" of previous administrations and filled governmental posts with his political cronies. While this did keep "new blood" circulating in the appointed posts of the federal government, it also removed job security for most administrative positions in Washington and allowed people to occupy posts on political affiliation rather than personal merit, leading to corruption and bad management.
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Hani, 42, a father of three, had acted as an intermediary linking ethnic Albanian militants to political parties in Macedonia's government. Some ethnic Albanians angered by his death insisted such slayings would only feed sympathy for the rebels, known as the National Liberation Army.
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