Rotation+in+office

Spoils System-(also known as a patronage system)

The term was derived from the phrase "'to the victor belong the spoils..." by New York Senator William L. Marcy

Informal practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party—as opposed to a system of awarding offices on the basis of some measure of merit independent of political activity.

Rotation IN Office (term limits)

dates back to the American Revolution, and prior to that to the democracies and republics of antiquity.

Beginning about the 1830's, the Jacksonian Revolution introduced a less idealistic twist to the practice of limiting terms. Rotation in office came to mean taking turns in the distribution of political prizes. Rotation of nominations to the U.S. House of Representatives – the prizes – became a key element of payoffs to the party faithful. The leading lights in the local party machinery came to regard a nomination for the House as "salary" for political services rendered. A new code of political ethics evolved, based on the proposition that "turnabout is fair play. In short, rotation of nominations was intertwined with the spoils system.