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Nominative Processes of Political Appointee in USA Chang Shih- Hsien & Twu Kae- Lin

The purpose of this article is to study nominative process of political appointee in USA. The American President is empowered by the Federal Constitution to make multitudinous political appointments. The article discusses the basis and the processes of the nomination, the nominative custom, nominative rationale, actual nominative processes, involvement of political parties in the nominative processes, nominative projects and so on.
The method of this article to carry on is documental analysis. The findings of this article are: American President needs a nominative mechanism to make clear multitudinous nomination; the nominative procedures have developed from simple to complex and prudent. The authors conclude that in order to recruit right people to right positions, there would be a nominative mechanism developed in President Office, and then they could not be vetoed in the Senate.


Key Words:American President, political appointee, nominative process, senatorial courtesy, constitutional custom.