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Buckley vs Valee
1976
source, amount reform of campaign money
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
2002
soft money, from anyone to party building activities
Pocketbook voting
voting opposite party in power for the self
Sociotropic voting
voting for benefit of all, to help society
Min amount of States a Pres. can win to take election
15
Speaker of the House does
Speaks for House to President about strategy and policy
Majority House leader does
tactical planning
Whips of the House do
info gathering and channeling
President of Senate is
VP
President Pro Tempore
stands in for VP, most senior member of Senate
Selective Committees
temporary, deal with specific issues
Three types of rules in House
open, closed, restrictive
Conference Committees
revisiting a bill to make it presentable to a President that vetoed it
The Powers of the President, in total
Executive Order, Executive Privilege, Persuade, Inform, Recommend, Appoint
Brownslow Commission
1932, increase personal White House staff of President
What office organizes workers an aids?
Chief of Staff office
People can be ambassadors to what
organizations, countries, companies
Desegregation of Military occured by exec. order of
Harry Truman
Bureaucracy does what
implements laws, provides services (public works)
Five Problems with Bureaucracy acronym
ROMES
Five Problems with Bureaucracy non acronym
Red tape, overreaching goals, measuring success is hard, expansionist tendency, slow to change
Hatch Act
1939
Prevents gov. workers from campaign/participating in partisan political activity
Presidents Inner Cabinet acronym`
STD J
Presidents INner Cabinet
State Treas Def Justice
Independent Regulatory Agencies are
quasi-jducial regulatory agencies
First candidate to see political primary process had changed presidential politics was
Jimmy Carter
Media over exaggerating important of campaign events is called
manufacturing news
Performance voting
choosing president on performance
Influence of mass media tends to be
exaggerated on Pres elections
The Senate was intended to be
electorally insulated by the Founders
1960s, advantages of running for reelection in House grew to include
money differences between candidates, party decline, changing role of reps
In terms of proportion of women in the national legislature, among worlds democracies, US ranks
quite low
Shaw v. Reno
1993
districts based solely on minority population figures are unconstitutional
Steering Committee
Republican way of assigning people to committees
The Committee of the Whole
Floor of the House, where issues are debated amongst all members
Distributive Theory
members of Congress get committee assignments based on constituencies interests
President does what acronym
CRAMP
President does what
Conduct foreign policy, respond to disasters and problems, administer complex bureaucracy, manage economy, promote desired legislation
Important Constitutional powers of President are
shared with Congress
Ronald Reagan tried to restore
grandeur and pageantry of presidency
Independent Counsel
can look into presidential criminal conduct
Administrative Discretion
power of bureaucracy to implement laws their way
Pendleton Act
created civil service commission
Senatorial Courtesy
allows senators to veto appointments within their states
17 Amendment
direct election of senators
Important Committees in House acronym
CRAW
Important Committees in House
Commerce, Rules, Appropriations, Ways and Means
Important Committees in Senate acronym
FFAB
Important Committees in Senate
Foreign Affairs, Finance, Appropriations, Budget
Citizens want their reps as _______, others as ______
delegates, trustees
Barbar says
POS, NEG
ACTIVE Adaptive Compulsive
PASSIVE Compliant Withdrawn
Skowronek says
Pres only great if situation allows them to be
Log Rolling Theory
people work together in Congress to help everyone get things passed
Schlesinger Pneumonic
Helpwinner
Ornstein Pneumonic
improvein tech
Glassman Pneumonic
fairland
Paige Pneumonic
Guage
Cohn Pneumonic
sown
Flake Pneumonic
shouldn't be fake
Craig/Simpson Pneumonic
Go simpletons
Schlesigner Pneumonic2
warbringer
Isaacs Pneumonic
basics
Turner Pneumonic
anti-foreigners
Wilson Pneumonic
No,son
Hacker Pneumonic
Gov's No Slacker
Schlesigner
give pop vote winner 102 electoral votes, says small states have current adv
Ornstein
more tech/money to smooth election process, says small small states have current adv
Glassman
divide vote proportionally in each state by Congressional district
Paige
national spending should take priority over pork barrel spending, which takes too much of budget
Cohn
pork barrel spending is glue of legislation, makes people happy, only 1% of national budget anyway
Flake
currency corruption is pork barrel spending, creates biases on a bill, need transparency, should be explicit in text of legislation
Craig/Simpson
pork barrel puts money in hands of citizens, and must fit into budget resolution so is ok
Schelsinger2
Bush is unconstitutional in preventative war, Congress should choose when to go to war
Isaacs
Congress failed to stop war, preoccupied with other things, gave Bush the power
Turner
Says Pres can spy on any foreigners he wants, can't limit according to Constitution
Wilson
Gov not a business ever, demand only from elected officials, vague/immeasurable goals/structures, no profit/loss
Hacker
Gov more efficient in Health Care, disabilities, other insurance, risk spread widely and no adverse selection problem