Serving the Law or Playing Politics? The Strategic Use of U.S. Attorney Appointments

• In Event: Personnel, careers, and bureaucratic appointments

Brief Overview

We develop a new theory of strategic U.S. Attorney appointments and test its implications using an original, continuous dataset of all USA positions from 1970 to 2019, including the details of appointment for Senate-confirmed and interim appointees.

Authors

• Christina M. Kinane, Yale University

• Lauren Mattioli, Boston University