A benefit of the merit system is that it helps to ensure the most qualified applicants are given the position. A drawback is that the bureaucracy is less responsive to the will of elected leaders than under patronage.
Congress tends to create government corporations to perform services that respond to market forces but are too important to the public to be allowed to fail.
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