Presidency Quiz

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  • Created by: Hannah
  • Created on: 28-05-13 19:45
What kind of presidency did the Founding Fathers create?
President is head of state and government, singular executive, indirectly elected and also a limited presidency
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What are the principle powers of the president?
Propose legislation, submit annual budget. sign legislation, veto legislation, Chief Executive, nominations, Commander-in-Chief, negotiate treaties and power of pardon
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How do VP's come to office?
Seleted by party's presidenital candiate and they run on a joint ticket
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What are the powers of the VP?
Presiding officer of the Senate, power to break tied vote in Senate, counting and announcing result of Electoral College, becomes president if president loses office or acting president if the president is declared disabled
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Why has the role of the VP become more important?
Role of fed. gov. has grown = the VP can help more, attracted more significant people, taken on new roles, major spokesman, Washington-insider
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What reasons are there that Cheney has not changed the office of VP in the long term?
He had no presidential ambition of his own, huge mismatch of experience between president and Cheney and events of 9/11 gave Cheney a peculiar environment to operate in
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By 2006 how many staff did the federal bureaucracy employ?
2.5 million
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What % of the fed. bureaucracy work in Washington D.C?
11%
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How many executive departments are there?
15
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What are the main reasons for the growth of the fed. bureaucracy?
Industrialisation, immigration, westward expansion, New Deal and development of communications
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What are the main function of the fed. bureaucracy?
Executing laws, creating rules, ajudication
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How are federal civil servants recruited?
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
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What are the main problems associated with the federal bureaucracy?
Clientelism, imperalism, parochialism, arbitrariness, waste, iron triangles, 'going native' and inefficiency
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How can Congress check the federal bureaucracy?
Legislative power to estalished, merge or abolish departments, power of the purse and can use power of oversight to investigate fed. depts.
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Explain how the president's cabinet came into existence?
Traditional members are heads of executive depts. but not mentioned in the constitution
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What are the major pools of recruitment for the president's cabinet?
Congress, serving or former state governors, big city mayors and academia
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Explain in which ways a president may seek to appoint a 'balanced' cabinet?
Religion, race, gender, age and political ideology
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How often are cabinet meetings held?
Varies from president to president as they are no set times for these meetings to be held
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What functions does the cabinet fulfilll for the presidency?
Engender team spirit, allows president to appear collegial and consultative, provide oppurtunity for both info giving and recieving, forum to debate policy, can present 'big picture items', check up on legislation going through Congress
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What functions do cabinet members fulfill for the presidency?
Provide get-to-know oppurtunities, resolve interdepartmental disputes, speak to cabinet officers, possible to catch the pr and gives them increased backing in their depts.
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Why will cabinet members never be especially important?
Constitution grants all executive power to the pr, no doctrine of collective responsibility, cabinet members are not the pr's rivals and EXOP (rival to cabinet)
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Why was EXOP created?
To prevent an overload for the president when fed. govt's responsibilities grew
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What are the functions of the White House Staff?
Provide advice and admin support for pr on daily basis, act as a liason between WH and fed. bureaucracy, liason between WH and Congress and paperwork and phone calls screened for the pr
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What are the functions of the WH chief of staff?
Draw up pr's schedule, day-to-day running of WH, personnel management, ensure all decisions arrive in an orderly fashion, deal with crisis managment and take the blame when things go wrong
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What is the role of the National Security Council?
To help the pr coordinate foreign, security and defence policy
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What is the role of the OMB?
Advise pr on allocation of federal funds in annual budget and oversee the spending of all federal depts. and agencies
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Explain why there are often rivalries and difficulties between EXOP and the cabinet?
EXOP may regard the cabinet as distant and loyal, cabinet may regard EXOP as too close and too loyal to the pr, cabinet more distant than EXOP and cabinet officers can appear disloyal as they have loyalties beyond the president
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Who might the pr use in trying to persuade members of Congress to support his proposals?
VP, members of office of legislative affairs, cabinet officers and party leadership in Congress
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What methods of persuasion might the president use on membres of Congress?
A personal phonecall, offer help with legislation that that member is interested in, look more favourably on future positions, campaign for them in next election and appeal directly to public
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What is the 'presidential support score'?
Measures how often the president won in recorded votes in Congress on which he took a clear position
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What is happening in Congress that has made it more difficult for the president to get his way in Congress?
Declining levels of party discipline, less likely that 2 houses will be of the same party, more aware of their constituents wishes, Washington-outsider presidents and fragmentation of Congress
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What is the president's foreign policy powers?
Commander-in-chief and to negotiate treaties
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What are Congress' foreign policy powers?
Power of the purse, power to declare war and to ratify treaties and confirm appointments
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Why do people look to Congress in times of crisis, not Congress?
He is the single leader of America and they want a strong leader, pr has all the information available and pr has the nuclear 'football'
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What is meant by the 'imperial presidency'?
A presidency characterised by misuse and abuse of the powers of the pr
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How did Congress react to the so-called 'imperial presidency'?
Case Act (1972) and War Powers Act (1974)
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What are the main checks on presidential power from Congress?
Amend, delay or reject pr's legislative proposals, override pr's veto, amend budgetary requests, declare war, power of purse, ratify treaties, confirm treaties and impeachment
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What is the main check on presidential power from the SC?
Judicial Review
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What other checks are there on the president?
Public opinion, pressure groups, media, federal bureaucracy, pr's professional reputation, quality of staff chosen for executive branch, level of unity and crisises
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