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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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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


