[Osmf-talk] Board decision on initial composition of the Software Dispute Resolution Panel

[Allan Mustard]

One correction: political appointees in the United States are subjected
to public scrutiny only if they encumber "PAS" (Presidentially
Appointed, Senate-confirmed) positions, which are defined by law.[1] 
The rest of the roughly 4,000 political appointments (i.e., the
majority) in the U.S. government are made with no input from others, are
made purely at the discretion of the President, and are made behind
closed doors.  Furthermore, all career appointments are made behind
closed doors, and they constitute the vast bulk of the U.S. government
bureaucracy, which numbers more than 2 million at last count.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_presidential_appointment_with_Senate_confirmation

cheers,
apm

On 1/31/2021 10:02 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Practice for selecting political appointees is often significantly
> different - both in Germany but especially also in the Anglo-American
> culture sphere.  Public hearings investigating the qualifications of
> candidates are common practice there.  It is in my experience fairly
> rare that nomination, scrutiny and final selection of candidates in
> case of political appointees all happen behind closed doors.
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