The Loyalty Premium: Estimating the President’s Value of Unified Partisan Control of the Executive Appointment Process

• In Event: Presidential Appointments and Staffing

Brief Overview

Understand when presidents can obtain greater loyalty from executive nominees subject to the Senate confirmation process using structural econometric methods designed to handle both endogenous nomination choices and non-random sample selection.

Authors

• Jason S. Byers, University of Connecticut

• George A. Krause, University of Georgia