Someone should take this up

I recalled tonight a research question I first came up with maybe a week ago, when I was thinking about my own thesis. I wonder if there’s anything to be generalized from the disparate cases in which someone who disagrees with the very existence of some body is elected or appointed to it. So far I can think of Euroskeptical MEPs and Spence Abraham, Michigan’s own Senator who, after publicly stating the Department of Energy should be abolished and being defeated in 2000, was nominated to run it. Maybe the Nazis of the early thirties would fit?

Anyway, no matter what overarching lessons one could extrapolate from such rare cases as these, they would certainly be useless to the field of political science. Useless, and awesome.