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- Title
The Invisible Presidential Appointments: An Examination of Appointments to the Department of Labor, 2001-11.
- Authors
Lewis, David E.; Waterman, Richard W.
- Abstract
In this article we examine what we call the president's invisible appointments. We designate Senior Executive Service and Schedule C appointees as invisible because, in lieu of a scandal, these appointees serve in the bureaucracy, generally with significantly less direct attention from the press or scholars. In addressing the invisible appointees, we use new data from an ongoing research project that collects and codes data from the résumés of political appointees in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. In this article we examine data from the résumés of appointees serving in the Department of Labor during these two administrations. We describe the characteristics presidents consider when making appointments, explain which factors are most important for which positions, and compare the results to existing expectations about the factors presidents consider when making appointments.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRESIDENTS of the United States; UNITED States. Dept. of Labor; EXECUTIVE power; APPOINTEES; APPOINTMENT to public office; APPOINTMENT power (Government); PUBLIC officers; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12002