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- Title
Waiting for Advice and Consent: Record‐Level Diversity amidst an Exceedingly Slow Confirmation Pace during the First 300 Days of the Biden Administration.
- Abstract
Staffing the top levels of the executive branch is a high‐priority task for new presidents. Roughly 4,000 presidentially appointed positions are spread across the executive branch, and appointees to the most senior positions (nearly 1,200) require Senate confirmation. Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, then candidate Joe Biden promised to select a diverse set of appointees. This article examines President Biden's commitment to this pledge as well as the pace at which the Senate confirmed his first tranche of appointees. To assess President Biden's performance during the first 300 days of his administration, I compare his record to his three immediate predecessors (Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump). The data reveal that while President Biden fulfilled his promise by appointing record numbers of women and non‐Whites, the pace at which these appointees were confirmed was much slower than those of his three predecessors.
- Subjects
LEGISLATIVE hearings; APPOINTMENT to public office; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; BIDEN, Joe, 1942-; POLITICAL leadership; PUBLIC administration
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2022, Vol 52, Issue 3, p709
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12790