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25 Cards in this Set
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Role of PoliSci on the tasks of the president |
rhetorical presidency, advice and expertise, monitoring public opinion |
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Rhetorical presidency |
political communication theory that describes communication and government style of US presidents in 20th century |
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Advice and expertise |
Executive Office of President; White House Office |
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Monitoring public opinion |
presidential attention to the public opinion which ensures accountability |
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Presidential power (hard power) |
express powers (in constitution), implied powers, executive powers |
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Executive powers |
federal bureaucracy and executive orders |
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Legislative role of the president |
recommendations to Congress, limited veto, may call extra sessions of Congress, signing statements, budget proposals |
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Pocket veto |
legislative manoeuvre that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action |
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Judiciary role of the president |
appoints federal judges, may grant pardons and reprieves |
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President in foreign policy |
role as Commander in Chief and Diplomat in Chief |
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Limits on presidential power |
constitutional limits (checks and balances), political limits; public opinion; public opinion, divided government, dependent on specialist advice |
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Presidential paradox |
demand for powerful president, yet suspicion of centralized leadership and abuse of power |
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The Great Compromise |
combination of the New Jersey and Virginia plan, bicameral legislature |
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House of Representatives; features |
democratic element: short term and popular representation, 435 members, elected in entirety every 2 years,, based on proportional representation, district based, pass federal legislation, exclusive powers |
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Cloture |
procedure which allows Senate to place a time limit on consideration of a bill to overcome a filibuster |
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Presidential Democracy |
executive retains independent democratic legitimacy |
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Parliamentary Democracy |
executive derived democratic legitimacy from legislature |
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Congressional powers |
express and implied powers |
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Express powers |
legislates, power of the purse, socio-economic regulation, foreign relations and military |
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Express powers; legislates |
vice-president is tie breaker |
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Express powers; power of the purse |
taxation, borrowing, appropriation, minting |
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Express powers; socio-economic regulation |
naturalization, interstate and international commerce, establish and lower courts, patents, post office |
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Express-powers; foreign relations and military |
war, raising an army, militia |
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Implied powers |
necessary and proper; clause/elastic to make laws |
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Congressional oversights |
overlapping purposes and tools of oversight such as hearings and investigations |
