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- Title
Presidential Appointments and Public Trust.
- Authors
Hollibaugh, Gary E.
- Abstract
Despite their responsibility for federal policy implementation in the United States, little research has focused on how presidential nominees and appointees affect public opinion. This study offers the first systematic examination of this overlooked phenomenon. Using a survey with an embedded experimental manipulation, we find that perceived nominee competence is associated with increased trust in government in general, whereas perceptions of favoritism or patronage-characterized here as the nomination of campaign fundraisers-are associated with decreased levels of trust in the same. Notably, perceived nominee ideology has no perceptible effect on trust in government.
- Subjects
UNITED States; APPOINTMENT to public office; POLITICAL trust (in government); PUBLIC opinion; PRESIDENTS of the United States; POLITICAL patronage; FUNDRAISING
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 3, p618
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12298