Loyalty–Competence Trade‐offs for Top U.S. Federal Bureaucratic Leaders in the Administrative Presidency Era

We seek to characterize empirically the trade‐off between loyalty and competence that presidents make when appointing individuals to serve in U.S. federal agency leadership positions. These trade‐offs are analyzed from publicly available pre‐nomination information on 1,372 appointees within 39 major...

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