Confirmation Dynamics: Understanding the Heterogeneous Nature of Presidential Appointments to U.S. Federal Agencies

• In Event: Presidential Appointments into the Federal Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

We evaluate confirmation delay based on nominee individual-level characteristics across the entire (conditional) distribution of confirmation delay that allow for estimating continuous-time survival models with heterogeneous samples/populations.

Authors

• George A. Krause, University of Georgia

• Jason S. Byers, University of Georgia