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Steven L. Taylor
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

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  1. Jen says:

    From the Reuters piece:

    According to the State Department website, Hogan is the State Department’s executive secretary, the official that manages the flow of information between department bureaus and with the White House.
    Bernicat is the director-general of the U.S. Foreign Service and director of global talent leading the recruitment, assignment, and career development of the Department’s workforce.
    Assistant Secretary Teplitz has been with the Department over three decades, serving overseas as well in Washington. Most recently, she has been implementing the duties of under secretary for management, which oversees more than a dozen bureaus responsible for issues from the budget to recruitment, procurement and human resources across the workforce.
    “These are not policy positions. This is all the mechanics of the bureaucracy,” said Dennis Jett, a professor at Penn State’s School of International Affairs who spent 28 years in the foreign service. “But if you want to control the bureaucracy, that’s the way you do it.”
    Choosing who fills the three roles would allow Trump’s team to divert resources to and from parts of the State Department, control the information gathered by the numerous bureaus and embassies and manage personnel decisions, he said.

    Jesus. This is going to be a very bad four years. This will f&*( up the intelligence community too, FYI.

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  2. Michael Reynolds says:

    Biden will be partly rescued by history, as Harry Truman was. His greatest failure was not leaving after one term. Hubris and denial.

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