In Britain they use something called the Nolan rules, and I won't claim to be an expert on it, but it is a process—as I understand it, and my colleague may have more to add on this—that involves a non-partisan appointments board that reviews nominations. The nominations are public. It's not that you get an announcement from the PMO that somebody has just been appointed. There is a process. It's public. It's open. Anybody can be nominated, and the final result is a board that is generally considered to be non-partisan and not somehow connected to the political party in power.
