Skowronek
When an affiliated leader is leading a resilient regime.
What is the politics of articulation?
President who used the most signing statements in American History.
Who is George W. Bush?
An office created by the Executive Reorganization
Act of 1939 which acts as a set of advisors to the president.
What is the Executive Office of the President?
A written presidential directive instructing civilian
or military members of the executive branch on or military members of the executive branch on
how to conduct (some aspect of) their job.
What is an executive order?
A form of presidential leadership involving
direct intervention in areas of bureaucratic
decision-making.
The 3 I's.
What are Ideas, Interests, and Institutions?
Coined by Bruce Miroff, this term describes a publicized event intended to portray a tailored image of the president in order to gain public support.
What is a political spectacle?
White House office which advises presidents on selection of political appointees.
What is the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO)?
A president's political capital is dependent on these three factors.
What are the size of the president’s party in congress, the size of their last electoral victory, and their current level of public approval?
A body of constitutional thinking that justifies and
legitimates presidential efforts at bureaucratic
control.
What is Unitary Executive Theory?
Separate from power, this is the president's ability to have real influence and use their resources to their full advantage.
What is authority?
A formal presidential message, written for the occasion of signing a bill into law, in which the president offers some form of commentary on that new law.
What is a signing statement?
One function of this entity is to assist in the preparation for use of presidential vetoes, executive orders, and signing statements.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
The passage of the Affordable Care Act under Obama and George W. Bush’s attempts to privatize social security can be described by this concept.
What is presidential overreach?
The predeceasing theory to UET, this idea, supported by Woodrow Wilson, posits that national policy choices, must originate from the legislative branch.
What is neutral competence?
This is the type of leadership that Abraham Lincoln practiced.
What is the politics of reconstruction?
A president's willingness to persist and their skill to bargain effectively.
What is a president's professional reputation?
This office, created during the Regan presidency, changed the way "political planning" happens and contributes to the impact of the permanent campaign.
What is the White House Office of Political Affairs (PAO)?
Factors that condition a president's congressional support.
In contrast to broadcasting, this communications strategy brings tailored content to specific audiences.
What is narrowcasting?
The pattern of institutions affecting the presidency becoming more powerful and independent over time.
What is institutional thickening?
The two most common uses of signing statements by presidents.
What are Constitutional Review and Statutory Interpretation statements?
Along with the expansion of WH staff and the reshaping of the role of national party committees, this factor also accounts for the rise of White House political planning.
What is partisan presidential behavior?
The second phase of White House-Cabinet Relations, characterized by unexpected problems and increased rigidity on a cabinet member's potential for influence.
What is schedule and agenda saturation?
The three options available to cabinet members in the final, disillusionment stage of White House-Cabinet relations.
What are accept, resign, or rebel?