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The Politics of Presidential Appointments

Author : David E. Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837685
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Presidential Appointments written by David E. Lewis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many questioned whether the large number of political appointees in the Federal Emergency Management Agency contributed to the agency's poor handling of the catastrophe, ultimately costing hundreds of lives and causing immeasurable pain and suffering. The Politics of Presidential Appointments examines in depth how and why presidents use political appointees and how their choices impact government performance--for better or worse. One way presidents can influence the permanent bureaucracy is by filling key posts with people who are sympathetic to their policy goals. But if the president's appointees lack competence and an agency fails in its mission--as with Katrina--the president is accused of employing his friends and allies to the detriment of the public. Through case studies and cutting-edge analysis, David Lewis takes a fascinating look at presidential appointments dating back to the 1960s to learn which jobs went to appointees, which agencies were more likely to have appointees, how the use of appointees varied by administration, and how it affected agency performance. He argues that presidents politicize even when it hurts performance--and often with support from Congress--because they need agencies to be responsive to presidential direction. He shows how agency missions and personnel--and whether they line up with the president's vision--determine which agencies presidents target with appointees, and he sheds new light on the important role patronage plays in appointment decisions.

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

Author : Us Congress
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions written by Us Congress and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plum Book is published by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and House Committee on Oversight and Reform alternately after each Presidential election. The Plum Book is used to identify Presidential appointed and other positions within the Federal Government. The publication lists over 9,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment. The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials. The Plum Book was first published in 1952 during the Eisenhower administration. When President Eisenhower took office, the Republican Party requested a list of government positions that President Eisenhower could fill. The next edition of the Plum Book appeared in 1960 and has since been published every four years, just after the Presidential election.

Beyond a Government of Strangers

Author : Robert Maranto
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739110904
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Government of Strangers written by Robert Maranto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. American government has 3,000 presidential political appointees and thousands more state and local political appointees, who refer to their in-and-out bosses as 'Christmas help.' Beyond a Government of Strangers is the first book to focus on the men and women who stick around, on the career executives and their own roles in the executive branch. Robert Maranto provides pithy, sage advice on how career bureaucrats can improve tenuous relationships and overcome conflicts with political appointees, especially during presidential transitions, for more effective government from the top down.

Learning the Ropes

Author : Mark A. Abramson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742549869
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Learning the Ropes written by Mark A. Abramson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning the Ropes: Insights for Political Appointees is geared to providing helpful advice to new political appointees on a variety of topics related to the challenge of managing in government. Chapters include advice of how to work well with career executives, how to work with congress and media, and how to effectively manage their own organization. A major theme throughout the book is that creating productive partnerships with career civil servants is crucial to the achievement of Administration goals and objectives.

Political Appointees

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Appointees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Defense Political Appointments

Author : Cheryl Y. Marcum
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Political Appointments written by Cheryl Y. Marcum and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources Strategy was established for the purpose of evaluating the Department of Defense's (DoD's) capacity to attract and retain both civilian and military personnel. As part of this evaluation, RAND was asked to study the growth of political appointment positions within the DoD as well as to examine the appointment and confirmation process that potential political appointees face. Tasked with reviewing relevant DoD data, the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI), acting in support of the Defense Science Board Task Force, found that the number of DoD positions requiring Senate confirmation has grown significantly over the past two decades. The study also revealed that the functional responsibilities of such positions have narrowed while their vacancy rates have increased. In assessing the literature, the NDRI found that disincentives exist in the political appointment and confirmation process -- namely, requirements that candidates disclose a range of personal and financial information; requirements to comply with conflict-of-interest regulations that may require divestiture of stock holdings; and requirements to comply with extensive post employment restrictions. Additionally, the length of the appointment and confirmation process itself may serve as a disincentive to potential appointees.

Partisan Appointees and Public Servants

Author : C. Eichbaum
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849803293
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Partisan Appointees and Public Servants written by C. Eichbaum and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative collection of original contributions examines the role of political staff in executive government and the consequences for policy-making and governance. The leading contributors reveal that good governance is about governments getting the advice that they need to hear as well as the advice that they want to hear. They highlight the importance of ensuring that the advice is appropriately responsive to the policy priorities of the government of the day. In countries such as the United States, and in some European democracies, political appointments to senior administrative positions are not a new development. However, in recent years a third element the political adviser has also become a feature of policy-making and political management in Westminster-styled systems. This authoritative work seeks to illuminate the drivers behind the advent of political staff in executive government, and the consequences for policy-making and governance. This unique book includes case studies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Academics and postgraduates researching in public administration and management as well as political science will find this book invaluable. Policymakers in agencies responsible for public service leadership will also find much to interest them in this important book.

A Government of Strangers

Author : Hugh Heclo
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815705192
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Government of Strangers written by Hugh Heclo and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also makes clear why bureaucrats must deal cautiously with political appointees and with a civil service system that offers few protections for broad-based careers of professional public service. The author contends that even as political leadership has become increasingly bureaucratized, the bureaucracy has become more politicized. Political executives—usually ill-prepared to deal effectively with the bureaucracy—often fail to recognize that the real power of the bureaucracy is not its capacity for disobedience or sabotage but its power to withhold services. Statecraft for political executives consists of getting the changes they want without losing the bureaucratic services they need. Heclo argues further that political executives, government careerists, and the public as well are poorly served by present arrangements for top-level government personnel. In his view, the deficiencies in executive politics will grow worse in the future. Thus he proposes changes that would institute more competent management of presidential appointments, reorganize the administration of the civil service personnel system, and create a new Federal Service of public managers.

Beyond a Government of Strangers

Author : Robert Maranto
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739110904
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Government of Strangers written by Robert Maranto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. American government has 3,000 presidential political appointees and thousands more state and local political appointees, who refer to their in-and-out bosses as 'Christmas help.' Beyond a Government of Strangers is the first book to focus on the men and women who stick around, on the career executives and their own roles in the executive branch. Robert Maranto provides pithy, sage advice on how career bureaucrats can improve tenuous relationships and overcome conflicts with political appointees, especially during presidential transitions, for more effective government from the top down.

Political Appointees

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Political Appointees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The In-and-outers

Author : G. Calvin Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The In-and-outers written by G. Calvin Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Defense Political Appointments: Positions and Process

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Political Appointments: Positions and Process written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political appointees constitute the heart of civilian leadership in the Pentagon. Individuals who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate occupy a total of 45 positions in the top echelons of the Department of Defense (DoD), including the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the military departments-up from 12 a half-century ago.

The Presidential Appointee's Handbook

Author : G. Edward DeSeve
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815728948
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Presidential Appointee's Handbook written by G. Edward DeSeve and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A guide to competencies needed by the federal government’s new top officials. The transition from one president to another, regardless of which party wins the 2016 elections, will mean many things, one of which is that some 3,000 to 4,000 new senior presidential appointees will take office in the first months of 2017. They will join some 6,000 members of the Senior Executive Service and nearly 1,000 admirals and generals already working in the top ranks of government. But the little-known truth is that the federal government has no formal, or even informal, continual learning program for its new high-level managers. If history is a guide, many of the next president's appointees will never have served in the federal government or, indeed, at any level of government. This means that they will need to hone their considerable skills to meet new challenges. This new, revised, and updated edition of the The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook is intended to fill the need for learning by helping new presidential appointees develop the knowledge, skills, and capabilities they will need in their challenging assignments. Additionally, the new edition provides frameworks for success in areas such as strategic foresight, planning for results, risk management, and resilience that are designed to give appointees templates for achieving their goals. Blending theory with the demands of day-to-day practice, the book clarifies the roles and responsibilities of top government executives, helps them build a network of shared experiences and relationships, and lays out common competencies and codes of proper behavior for government leaders at all levels. "

Political Appointees

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788113321
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Political Appointees written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the periods of service for persons appointed by the President to federal Executive Schedule positions with the advice and consent of the Senate during a recent 10-year period. Addresses the issue of high turnover among these appointees. Tables. Bibliography.

Records Management

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records Management written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Problems of Political Appointees in Federal Government

Author : Matthew Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Problems of Political Appointees in Federal Government written by Matthew Howard and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This academic literature review illuminates the numerous political and social effects of the federal government's current approach to staffing leadership positions in its agencies with short-term political appointees rather than career administrators. This scholarly work delves into the historical causes for the appointee system, its current detrimental effects on America's government and its people, and the potential solutions for reforming this flawed approach to governmental leadership. 8,500 words plus references.

Innocent Until Nominated

Author : G. Calvin MacKenzie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815716664
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Innocent Until Nominated written by G. Calvin MacKenzie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to outspoken presidential scholar Cal Mackenzie, the presidential appointments process is a national disgrace. It encourages bullies and emboldens demagogues, silences the voices of responsibility, and nourishes the lowest forms of partisan combat. It uses innocent citizens as pawns in the petty games of politicians and stains the reputations of good people. It routinely violates fundamental democratic principles, undermines the quality and consistency of public management, and breaches simple decency. In short, at a time when the quality of political leadership in government matters more than ever, the procedures for ensuring that quality are less reliable than ever. How did we get into this distressing condition? What is wrong with the current appointments process? And, most important, what can we do to fix it? Innocent Until Nominated brings together ten of the country¡¯s leading scholars of government and politics to explore recent changes in the presidential appointments process and their effects on the ability of contemporary presidents to recruit and retain talented leaders. Each chapter provides a special focus on a range of topics including presidential transitions, the obstacle course of Senate confirmation, the morass of forms and questionnaires, and the exasperating, exhausting, and humiliating experiences of recent appointees. For scholars, students, and potential presidential recruits, the book offers a candid and revealing look at the failures of the appointments process... and how it has become a serious impediment to effective leadership of the executive branch. Contributors include Sarah A. Binder (Brookings Institution and George Washington University), E. J. Dionne Jr. (Brookings Institution and Washington Post), George C. Edwards III (Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University), Stephen Hess (Brookings Institution), Judith M. Labiner (Brookings Institution), Paul C. Light (Brookings Institution