��� Dissertation Chapter 2: Literature Review (14 Pages) • The topic is political appointees. • The problem is that political appointees often occur due to loyalty to a political party rather than based on job related skills which can result in poor employee performance. (Li, 2021). Li, C. (2021). Indirect accountability of political appointees. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 33(3), 383–396. https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298211027229 • The purpose of this exploratory case study is to explore how political appointees qualifications and experience meet the job description for their position (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). • Topic theories include top-down, loyalty-competence trade- off, and representative bureaucracy. • The literature review must have methodological/design literature relevant to the selected research topic. The literature review should provide a synthesis (not a study-by- study summary) of the state of current knowledge on the topic.
