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23 Cards in this Set
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What branch of government is the focus of the people for the most intense and persistent emotions on the American polity?
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The President
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Who is the first political figure children are aware about while in school?
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The President
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Who is seen as the "benevolent leader" of the country?
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The President
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According to Barber, list the 4 characteristics regarding a president that predicts how he/she will serve?
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1. Personal personality
2. presdidential personality is patterned 3. president's personality interacts with the power situation he faces 4. what happened in a president's early life, culminating in his/her first independent political success |
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According to Barber, what affects a president's personality?
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1. how active he/she is
2. whether or not he/she gives the impression he/she enjoys his/her political life |
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What is the term given to a president's habitual way of performing his 3 political roles?
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Style
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What are the 3 style elements of the political roles of a president?
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1. rhetoric
2. personal relations 3. homework |
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What term is given to a president's perception of his primary, politically relevant, beliefs, particularly his conceptions of social causality, human nature and the central moral conflicts of the time?
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World view
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What serves as the way a President see things?
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World view
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What serves as the way a President does things?
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Style
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What word comes from the Greek word for engraving?
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Character
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What is the term given to the way the president orients himself toward life?
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Character
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List the 3 recurrent themes that comprise the categories of needs that are thrust upon a president by the public:
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1. reassurance
2. progress and action 3. sense of legitimacy |
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In general, in what part of an individual's development does character emerge?
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Childhood
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In general, in what part of an individuals' development does world view emerge?
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Adolescence
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In general, in what part of an individual's development does style emerge?
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Adulthood
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List the 5 concepts that run through the accounts of presidents:
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1. character
2. world view 3. style 4. power situation 5. climate of expectations |
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List the 4 types of presidential character:
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1. active-positive
2. active-negative 3. passive-positive 4. passive-negative |
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How are the 4 types of presidential characters distinguished?
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Based on
1. activity-passivity of the energy level of the president 2. positive-negative based on how does he/she feels about what he/she does |
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What president fits the active-positive mold?
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Thomas Jefferson-applied reason to organizing connections with Congress
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What president fits the active-negative mold?
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John Adams-worked hard, angry a lot
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What president fits the passive-positive mold?
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James Madison-tried to compromise his way out, gave in too readily
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What president fits the passive-negative mold/
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George Washington-aloof air of reserve who longed to retire to Mt. Vernon
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