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It's also the case in the US too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appoint
by jessriedel 5y ago
It's also the case in the US too:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_in_th...
It's pretty clearly established at each agency which positions are turned over when a new administration gains power and which are protected as non-political, and this interacts with the formal rules (e.g., you need cause to fire non-political positions but not political ones).
Perhaps the author of the post is arguing that there should be stronger checks and that in practice the political influence extends below the nominal line, but he's wrong if he thinks this is somehow ignored by statute.
- Ericson2314 5y agoThanks to this thread for pointing out that in multiple governments the distinction is in fact formal. I am tempted to grumble that, once again, the rationalists are ignorant of the ways the world actually works.
- jessriedel 5y agoEven if the authors was mistaken on this point, the rest of the post is still useful and interesting. These are mostly just people blogging in their spare time; doesn't seem sensible to smear the community for a minor mistake like this.