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The Politics of Political Appointments
(2015-02)
By manipulating the screening and selection of executive bureaucrats, political leaders can indirectly
control the policy preferences that are carried out and enforced within a polity. In this article, we
argue that ...
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and
the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted
how political ...
ExecutiveAppointmentsunderLegislativeOversight
(2023-03)
A largeliteraturearguesthattheexecutive’sappointmentpowersmaybestowthem
with asignificantpolicyadvantageagainstthelegislature.Inpractice,however,the
legislature mayalsodeployavarietyofinstrumentstostrikebackatopportuni ...