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Innocent Until Nominated : The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process /
According to outspoken presidential scholar Cal Mackenzie, the presidential appointments process is a national disgrace. It encourages bullies and emboldens demagogues, silences the voices of responsibility, and nourishes the lowest forms of partisan combat. It uses innocent citizens as pawns in the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Brookings Institution Press,
2011.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The state of the presidential appointments process -- Presidential appointments: recruiting executive branch leaders -- Why not the best? The loyalty-competence trade-off in presidential appointments -- First impressions: presidents, appointments, and the transition -- The Senate: an "obstacle course" for executive appointments? -- The Senate as a black hole? Lessons learned from the judicial appointments experience -- Repetitiveness, redundancy, and reform: rationalizing the inquiry of presidential appointees | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Appointments past and future: how presidential appointees view the call to service -- "Political hacks" versus "bureaucrats": can't public servants get some respect? -- Contributors -- Index | |
| 520 | |a According to outspoken presidential scholar Cal Mackenzie, the presidential appointments process is a national disgrace. It encourages bullies and emboldens demagogues, silences the voices of responsibility, and nourishes the lowest forms of partisan combat. It uses innocent citizens as pawns in the petty games of politicians and stains the reputations of good people. It routinely violates fundamental democratic principles, undermines the quality and consistency of public management, and breaches simple decency. In short, at a time when the quality of political leadership in government matters. | ||
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