Malign Neglect: Evidence That Delay Has Become the Primary Method of Defeating Presidential Appointments Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This analysis shows that the lengthening of the confirmation process for presidential nominations to major judicial and executive branch offices from 19652008 is due to a purposeful strategy to defeat presidential nominees by preventing them from getting a vote. These changes are most apparent for judicial nominations, but they are also evident to a lesser extent for executive branch nominations. We argue that party polarization of the 1990s precipitated this process. 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

published proceedings

  • Congress & the Presidency

altmetric score

  • 9

author list (cited authors)

  • Bond, J. R., Fleisher, R., & Krutz, G. S.

citation count

  • 33

complete list of authors

  • Bond, Jon R||Fleisher, Richard||Krutz, Glen S

publication date

  • January 2009