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Who’s Really Running the Government? Yale Lab Tracks Unconfirmed Acting Officials

ISPS · August 2025

Baby on Board: Scholars Confront the Fragility of the Administrative State Amid Political and Judicial Upheaval

ISPS · July 2025

Blessings of Bureaucracy: Christina Kinane Talks Federal Vacancies, Presidential Strategy, and the Virtues of Government Service

ISPS · February 2023

Why there are so many vacancies in the Biden Administration

JM Rieger · The Washington Post · December 2021

How presidents sidestep the Senate’s ‘advice and consent’ on nominees

Mike Cummings · Yale News · May 2021

Biden has his hands full rebuilding a demoralized federal workforce

Nancy Marshall-Genzer · Marketplace · March 2021

Political forecast? Gridlock and polarization, Yale experts predict

Yale News · November 2020

How Presidential Appointments Reveal Policy Goals and Elite Interests

Science of Politics Podcast, Niskanen Center