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> Both term limits and lobbying bans for officials shift the balance of power, experience, and skill to private lobbies and away from the people doing public wo

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  Most political appointees expected term of office is tied to their party controlling the appointed office (and often times the person that appointed them doing so, as even another person from the same party will want to bring in their own people.) Thus, people who consider taking these offices need to have the ability to get other work need to have work they can do in between political appointments, so if you ban them for an extended period from the broad class of out-of-government jobs that the experience and skills developed and used in their public work would be most applicable, then people with viable alternatives are just not going to work in the public sector at all, unless they are so independently wealthy that they don't need work at all.
  • dllthomas 10y ago
    Interesting.