I get that it’s because you need to be elected etc, but why isn’t this a common practise for experts to run and be put in these positions? For example the minister of health should be something along the lines of a doctor or many years of experience in the business of the relevant health service
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Guess it depends where you live. In the United States, this is fairly common for the non-cabinet related positions.
While Secretary’s of departments tend to be more political savvy leaders, the heads of individual agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration, or say, the Bureau of Land Management, tend to be civil servants, or people with particular expertise in their field.
These are the people who actually matter in the sake of these agencies, and the political heads at the top are more so the go-between between the President and the agency itself
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