Am examining factors considered for the appointment of political leaders in Africa
I would like to know if any one is familiar with a country that has:
1) clearly stipulated credentials for nominees on for example ministerial posts.
2). If there is any head of state who conducts interviews to the nominees prior to confirmation?
3). If there are no factors, what then are the consideration for appointment/nominations of these personnel?
In Kenya, there is the process of identification of suitable candidates. The candidates are then evaluated by the appointing authority (The Head of state). Once the executive is satisfied, They are then subjected to further assessment by the legislature (parliament and Senate) both on technical issues related to the sectors they will be responsible for. and on personal/social issues. In some instances the legislature may reject the nomination and give reasons. This is the closest to an interview process political appointments go through. For all other public servants at high levels they go through a more rigorous recruitment process that is open to public participation through memorandums etc.
Ghana.
The procedures described by Andrew are similar for ministerial appointees.
I am not certain if this qualifies for what you had in mind, but in the US, there are many appointments made by the president which require the "advice and consent" of the US Senate before the nominee may take office. This has been done, in the past, primarily as a formality to help senators understand the nominees' backgrounds, for which they may chastise them, but unless something shocking is revealed, approval is generally all but guaranteed, even by the minority party. If something too embarrassing is revealed, the nominee (in the past) might withdraw before a vote by the senate. However, we have found that the new US president has appointed people who, like himself, seem to have no such scruples. Voting for such nominees has now then become much closer, and alarming information has been brought to light.
The whole system of Government in the US seems to have become broken, which is a much bigger discussion, but at least the investigative process of "advice and consent," required with regard to many, though unfortunately not all, major political appointments by the president, has revealed some of the most troubling information about the new administration. (It has also revealed that a lack of honesty and an abundance of other human failings, including willful ignorance, appears to infect too many people, though still a minority, which minority seems to have hijacked the US Government from an often dismayed majority of people. The process of Senate approval has revealed that at least the function of bringing some issues/facts to light still works, though not a lot might be done about it, as the normal mechanisms for controlling someone with authoritarian leanings have been found to often be norms rather than actual laws, and the new administration seems to care little for such norms of acceptable behavior.)
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