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The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance.

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance. By David E. Lewis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 293 pp.

David Lewis's The Politics of Presidential Appointments is an important and crisply written analysis of the trade-offs between empowering the state and controlling it. The book has two aims. It asks why some agencies have more appointees than others and it explores the impact appointees have on the quality of management. The volume pays particular attention to the institutional perspective of presidents as distinct from other branches of government or the public.

Lewis takes exceptional care in dissecting the appointee landscape. He defines politicization as the number and penetration of presidential appointments in federal government agencies. Although some studies of...

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