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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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: MacKenzie, G. Calvin
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Washington : Brookings Institution Press 2011.
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvcb5c19
Sadržaj:
  • 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