After the vote: climate policy decision-making in the administrative state

Struthers, Cory L.; Arnold, Gwen; Scott, Tyler A.; Fleischman, Forrest

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.014

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“…Indeed, members do not necessarily need to directly intervene. Instead, bureaucrats can approximate the importance that an award will have toward the reelection goal of a legislator (Arnold 1979;Nagel 1975;Struthers et al 2021). In turn, bureaucrats can anticipate the reaction a legislator will have to an award.…”

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The Pivotal and Distributive Politics of Senate‐Confirmed Appointee Vacancies

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Napolio²,

Lee³

2022

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We examine the influence of discretionary agency outlays on the relative length of Senateconfirmed presidential appointee vacancies over time. We argue that key Senate pivots in the appointment process are more (or less) likely to extend a vacancy based on an agency's discretionary spending outlays to the Senator's state. We combine a uniquely thorough dataset on PAS vacancies with federal budget data by state and agency and show that co-partisan Senate pivots in the confirmation process seem to reward presidents with shorter vacancies when a given agency is more generous in discretionary outlays. However, under divided government, vacancies lengthen in presidentially aligned agencies as status quo agency outlays increase to key pivots. Our work speaks to both the pivotal politics of the Senate and the extent to which presidents and Senators might value filled (vacant) PAS positions.

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confidence: 99%