President-elect Obama appointed old hands to his top economic posts, explaining Wednesday that "the vision for change comes... from me."
That's a way to deal with a central problem of transitions - how to achieve change while ensuring that needed turnover of senior staff doesn't dysfunctionalize agency administration.
Transitions have dysfunctional tendencies. An expert on this is Carl M. Brauer, whose Presidential Transitions: Eisenhower through Reagan...
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