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The Sale of Public Office in the Spanish Indies under the Hapsburgs.

The Sale of Public Office in the Spanish Indies under the Hapsburgs.

The Elizabethan House of Commons. By J. E. Neale. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1950. Pp. 455. $5.00.) - Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century. By K. W. Swart. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1949. Pp. 165.) - The Law and the Commonwealth. By R. T. E. Latham. (London: Oxford University Press. 1949. Pp. viii, 510–633. $1.75.) - Germany Under

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Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century. By <italic>K. W. Swart</italic>. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1949. Pp. 165. Gld. 6.)

Journal Article Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century. By K. W. Swart. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1949. Pp. 165. Gld. 6.) Get access Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century. By Swart K. W.. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1949. Pp. 165. Gld. 6.) Franklin L. Ford Franklin L. Ford Bennington College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 55, Issue 3, April 1950, Pages 593–594, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/55.3.593 Published: 01 April 1950

Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century

Sale of Offices in the Seventeenth Century

Unifying the British Civil Service: Some Trends and Problems

When Sir Charles Trevelyan and Sir Stafford Northcote referred in their famous report of 1853 to the British Civil Service, they were undoubtedly indulging in wishful thinking. Applied to the administrative branch, the term suggested a degree of uniformity in conditions of service and a centralization of controls which was completely lacking. Horace Mann, first secretary to the Civil Service Commission, described the Service to the London Statistical Society in 1868 as “a chaotic mass of unorganized elements … an aggregation of separate departments governed, in many points, by no principle.” Nevertheless, three generations later, in 1931, the Royal (Tomlin) Commission on the Civil Service could point with justifiable satisfaction to the gradual process by which “a measure of common regulation and common staffing” had been achieved.While this unification has been the work of reformers who succeeded Trevelyan and Northcote after the middle of the last century, it is clear that the foundations of a centralized bureaucracy were laid much earlier. Under the banner of “economical reform,” Burke, Pitt, Lord Liverpool, and others introduced measures which not only reduced administrative expenditures but also cleared away the feudal barnacles, which had clung so long to the ship of state. Economical or administrative reform was the conservative counterpart of parliamentary reform, the two alternating in popularity during the century following 1780. The removal of pensioners and sinecurists (1780-1850), the abolition of the sale of public offices (1809), and the extinction of the casual system of paying civil servants out of fees and perquisites were typical constructive changes fostered by the economical reformers. These preliminary measures were necessary before the modern bureaucracy could be erected on stable foundations.

Notes on Municipal Affairs

The year which has passed since the preparation of the last “Notes on Municipal Affairs” (June 1, 1930) has been even more eventful than the preceding period.Developments in Particular Cities. New York City. The belief which had been growing for many years that the Tammany tiger was, after all, a self-restrained, self-muzzled beast has suffered a rude shock in the exposures of flagrant corruption in the sale of judicial office, the handling of vice, the purchase of land for school purposes, and in many other directions. The district attorney's office has been exposed to the searchlight of investigator Seabury. Charges were preferred against Mayor Walker by John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Wise in the name of a citizens' committee. Governor Roosevelt dismissed these charges with scant consideration. In the meantime, however, the legislature ordered a most searching investigation of the whole governmental situation in New York—an investigation which bids fair to rival, in extent and dramatic interest, that of the celebrated Lexow committee.Chicago. In Chicago, Mayor Thompson's political career has suffered, if not extinction, at least a total eclipse. Though victorious against a broken field in the Republican primary, he was defeated by Anton J. Cermak in the election of April 7 by a vote of 476,932 to 671,189. It is probable that the people of Chicago were more anti-Thompson than pro-Cermak, but the new mayor is a vigorous and striking figure. For one thing, he is boss in his own right of the Democratic organization in Cook county.

Sale of offices and salaries in the seventeenth century

Sale of offices and salaries in the seventeenth century