Appointee Confirmation and Tenure: The Succession of U.S. Federal Agency Appointees, 1989-2009.
This article analyzes the confirmation and tenure of 2,300 Senate-confirmed, presidential appointees to U.S. government agencies between 1989 and 2009, linking patterns of appointee confirmation and tenure to institutional politics, appointee independence, and agency context. Consistent with prior r...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 72; no. 6; pp. 902 - 914 |
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