The Governor as Chief Administrator in Kentucky

Kammerer, Gladys M.

doi:10.2307/2126028

The Journal of Politics

1954

DOI: 10.2307/2126028

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The Governor as Chief Administrator in Kentucky

Gladys M. Kammerer¹

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“… 20 Kammerer (1954, 239) makes a similar observation regarding patronage appointments in Kentucky: “Most recruiting is handled by each department on its own, rather than through the state's Personnel Division in the Department of Finance. In the overwhelming majority of departments political ‘clearance’ with legislators or party leaders from the county claimed for residence by the prospective employee is a traditional personnel procedure.”…”

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Patronage and Elections in U.S. States

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This paper examines whether control of patronage jobs significantly increased a political party's probability of winning elections in U.S. states. We employ a differences-in-differencs design, exploiting the fact that there is considerable variation in the dates different states adopted civil service reforms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that political parties in U.S. states were able to use patronage to increase the probability of maintaining control of their state legislatures and statewide executive offices. We also find evidence that an "entrenched" party in power for a longer time period can use patronage more effectively than a non-entrenched party. We consider several alternative hypotheses that might plausibly account for the patterns in the data, but find no evidence to support them.

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State Planning: Its Function and Organization: Report of the Committee on State Planning, American Institute of Planners

1959

Journal of the American Institute of Planners

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The Governor as Chief Administrator in Kentucky

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State Planning: Its Function and Organization: Report of the Committee on State Planning, American Institute of Planners

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