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9780815754015

Innocent Until Nominated The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815754015

  • ISBN10:

    0815754019

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-08-01
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

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Summary

"Innocent Until Nominated" brings together ten of the countrys leading scholars of government and politics to explore recent changes in the presidential appointments process and their effects on the ability of contemporary presidents to recruit and retain talented leaders.

Table of Contents

The State of the Presidential Appointments Process
1(49)
G. Calvin Mackenzie
Presidential Appointments: Recruiting Executive Branch Leaders
50(31)
James P. Pfiffner
Why Not the Best? The Loyalty-Competence Trade-off in Presidential Appointments
81(26)
George C. Edwards III
First Impresions: Presidents, Appointments, and the Transition
107(53)
Stephen Hess
The Senate: An ``Obstacle Course'' for Executive Appointments?
160(13)
Burdett Loomis
The Senate as a Black Hole? Lessons Learned from the Judicial Appointments Experience
173(23)
Sarah A. Binder
Repetitiveness, Redundancy, and Reform: Rationalizing the Inquiry of Presidential Appointees
196(35)
Terry Sullivan
Appointments Past and Future: How Presidential Appointees View the Call to Service
231(23)
Judith M. Labiner
Paul C. Light
``Political Hacks'' versus ``Bureaucrats'': Can't Public Servants Get Some Respect?
254(11)
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Contributors 265(2)
Index 267

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