Presidency Test 1

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Presidential Character

Back 1

-“the way the President orients himself toward life”

-Observable actions can outline underlying psychological tendencies

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Presidential Style

Back 2

-“how a … President goes about doing what the office requires him to do…”

-Forms early in political life and remains consistent

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Presidential World View

Back 3

-“primary, politically relevant beliefs, particularly his conceptions of social causality, human nature, and the central moral conflicts of the time”
-Forms early in political life and remains consistent
-Conditions their perceptions, their thinking and judgment

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Presidents Climate of Expectations

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-What the people expect from the President
-REASSURANCE – a feeling that things will be alright
-SENSE OF PROGRESS AND ACTION– he ought to be doing something or at least trying to do something
LEGITIMACY – both of the office and person

Front 5

Active/Positive

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ADAPTIVE
-high self esteem and relative success in relating to the environment
-emphasis on rational mastery where power is used as a means to achieve beneficial results.

Front 6

Active/Negative

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COMPULSIVE:power is used as a means to self-realization
- they expend great energy on tasks but derive little joy
-they are preoccupied with whether they are failing or succeeding

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Passive/Positive

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COMPLIANT
-superficially optimistic they seek to be loved
-they are easily manipulated
-they react rather than initiate.

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Passive/Negative

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-WITHDRAWN
-they respond to a sense of duty; -they avoid power
-they respond rather than initiate; -they avoid conflict and uncertainty; -they emphasize principles and procedures and have an aversion to politicking

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Studying the Presidency: Legal

Back 9

a. Studying the Presidents formal powers
b. Discusses the presidents place in our legal system
c. Problems include the fact that most of what the president does can not be explained by looking at a law.

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Studying the Presidency: Institutional

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a. Look at the office of the president as an institution and compare it to other ones
b. Problems with this method include knowing the what and how and not the why, and also ignoring political skills, ideology, and personality as a emphasis on organizations and progress.

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Studying the Presidency: Political Power

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a. Do not examine institutions, but rather the people within them and their relationship with each other
b. They view power as the main function and drive for the president
c. Problems with this theory include looking at the office of the president from his view and not of the American People and the underestimation of tradition, ideology, and other influences on behavior

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Studying the Presidency: Psychological

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a. Studying what is going on in the Presidents head by looking at his actions relative to when they were done.
b. Focus’ on the personality of the President
c. Problems include focusing too much on personality, and the subjective-ness of determining a good and bad personality.

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The President as Commander in Chief

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Sole leader of the nations armed forces
-this was checked by Congress only being allowed to declare war

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The President as Head of State

Back 14

broad authority to transact diplomatic affairs

checked by Senate override by a 2/3 vote

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Executive Agreements

Back 15

a treaty initiated by the executive with another state that effects either 1)foreign policy 2)commander in chief powers or 3) a prior act of Congress. This agreements do not supersede US law and have to be checked by Congress and the Courts

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The President as Chief Executive

Back 16

Does not define this power.
Section 2: power to appoint officials.
Ability to create executive orders

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The President as Legislator

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May call Congress into special session.
Veto laws (Article I).
-Must report “from time to time” to Congress with State of the Union address.

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Responsibilities of the OMB (office of management and budget)

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-Creation of the annual federal budget.
-Monitoring agency performance.
-Compiling recommendations from the departments on enrolled bills (bills that have been passed in identical form in both chambers of Congress).
Administering central clearance.

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Presidential Ambition

Back 19

Renshorn added this
a presidents drive to succeed
This helps form Presidential Style

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Presidential Integrity

Back 20

Renshorn added this
a presidents capacity to remain true to its beliefs
This helps form Presidential Style

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Presidential Relatedness

Back 21

Renshorn added this
How a president interacts with others
This helps form Presidential Style

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Principle agent problem

Back 22

“How does the principal control the behavior of the agent when the agent is more knowledgeable?”

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Regime Construction

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challenges and opportunities faced by presidents at the creation of a party system

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Regime Management

Back 24

Continue the policies of their predecesors

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Regime Enervation

Back 25

Disjunction. Difficulty of holding the regime together.

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Soft Money

Back 26

money that is given by a donor for a specific purpose.

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Going Public

Back 27

A strategy whereby a president promotes himself and his policies in Washington by appealing directly to the American Public for Support.”

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Public Opinion

Back 28

what the people think about issues, candidates, or political parties at any given point in time

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political socialization

Back 29

the process by which we develop our political attitudes, values, and beliefs.

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Positivity Bias

Back 30

the tendency to show evaluations of public figures and institutions in a positive direction. Presidents after inauguration have a higher approval rating than popular vote they received