Loyalty-Competence Tradeoffs in Presidential Appointments: A Latent Class Analysis

• In Event: Understanding the Modern Presidency

Brief Overview

When do presidents make tradeoffs in political appointments? We show that both type of appointments and agency characteristics explain the type of appointees that presidents select and appoint to various agencies within the federal bureaucracy.

Authors

• Yu Ouyang, Purdue University Northwest

• Richard W. Waterman, University of Kentucky