What is the defining feature of a parliamentary system rather than a presidential system?
the executive can be removed by the legislature between elections
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Why are parliamentary systems more fluid?
issues can be internalised
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Who said that 'every president between the mid-1960s and 2008 was associated to a greater or lesser extend with failure'?
McKay
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Which founder said that a single executive was necessary for 'decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch'?
Hamilton
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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'
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Who is often cited as the architect of the 'modern presidency'?
FDR
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What did Jackson call for which increased presidential accountability?
popular election
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Who coined the term 'bully pulpit'?
Theodore Roosevelt
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Who says that the presidency is the only elected office with a 'truly national constituency'?
McKay
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Nice quote about president being the centre of political consciousness
'the focus of the anxious crowd of the age'
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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
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Who says that presidential power is synonymous with 'power to persuade'?
Neustadt
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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
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Which British Prime Minister said 'you can't do it by committee... the buck stops with me and that's that'?
Blair
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What is the relationship between veto players and passage of legislation, according to Tsebelis?
the more veto players, the less legislation passes
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How long on average to presidential and parliamentary democracies last, respectively?
24 and 74
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When framing the US constitution, who said 'enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm'?
Madision
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Who says that whilst presidential popularity is obviously an asset, it has no effect on their ability to put pressure on Congress?
Edwards
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What are Barber's two dimensions of presidents?
active-passive and positive-negative
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Who says that presidentialism doesn't work using examples of south america?
Linz
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Who says that the problem with presidential systems in South-American countries is that they have a strong military legacy?
Cheibub
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Card 2
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Why are parliamentary systems more fluid?
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issues can be internalised
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Who said that 'every president between the mid-1960s and 2008 was associated to a greater or lesser extend with failure'?
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Card 4
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Which founder said that a single executive was necessary for 'decision, activity, secrecy and dispatch'?
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Card 5
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What did Kennedy say about the power of the presidency?
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