How Does a Merit System Differ from a System of Patronage

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Short Answer

How does a merit system differ from a system of patronage in the selection of government employees for the civil service?

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Definitions:

M/M/1

A queueing model notation representing a system with a single server, where arrivals follow a Poisson process, and service times are exponentially distributed.

Utilization

The ratio of the time that a resource is actually used to the time it is available for use, often measured to assess efficiency in operations.

μ

A symbol often used to represent the mean or average value of a set of numbers in statistics.