6. Who says that the presidency is the only elected office with a 'truly national constituency'?
McKay
Neustadt
7. Who notes that 'that presidential approval is often a function of national and global economic cycles or foreign policy events that are largely beyond a president's influence doesn't matter'?
Cronin and Genovese
Lijpart and Strom
8. What are Barber's two dimensions of presidents?
active-passive and positive-negative
republican-democrat and liberal-conservative
9. What is the relationship between veto players and passage of legislation, according to Tsebelis?
the more veto players, the less legislation passes
the fewer the veto players, the less legislation passes
10. What did Kennedy say about the power of the presidency?
'the president is rightly described as a man with extraordinary power. Yet it is also true that he must wield those powers under extraordinary limitations'
'public expectations of the office remain just as high as the ability of presidents to meet these expectations has diminished'
11. Who says that presidentialism doesn't work using examples of south america?
Linz
Cheibub
12. How long on average to presidential and parliamentary democracies last, respectively?
24 and 74
74 and 24
13. Who said that 'every president between the mid-1960s and 2008 was associated to a greater or lesser extend with failure'?
McKay
Mair
14. Who is often cited as the architect of the 'modern presidency'?
FDR
Kennedy
15. Who says that presidential power is synonymous with 'power to persuade'?
Neustadt
Norton
16. Who said 'to suppose that an American party winning Congress and the presidency thereby wins the leeway of a British governing party is to be deluded by the election returns'?
Mayhew
McKay
17. Which British Prime Minister said 'you can't do it by committee... the buck stops with me and that's that'?
Blair
Thatcher
18. Why are parliamentary systems more fluid?
issues can be internalised
the executive has more power
19. Nice quote about president being the centre of political consciousness
'the focus of the anxious crowd of the age'
'cornerstone of public concern'
20. According to Peele, which of the following is not a way in which FDR transformed the presidency?
expansion of staff
strengthened the legislative and agenda-setting role
added media appeal
strong conception of presidential power (first 100 days)
