President's Job Description
The Executive Branch
What do Bureaucrats do?
History of American Bureaucracy
Media
100
the symbolic role of the president as the representative of the country
What is head of state
100
the group of fifteen executive department heads who implement the president's agenda in their respective positions
The Cabinet
100
a rule that allows the government to exercise control over individuals and corporations by restricting certain behaviors
What is regulation
100
As a whole there are four cabinets that are considered the Inner Cabinet of White House. Department of State, Defense, Treasury and
What is Department of Justice
100
An example of this role of the Media is a poll taken on what candidate of the Democratic Party is favored to win the nomination
What is a ScoreKeeper
200
Greatest informal power of the POTUS is
Power of persuasion or Bully Pulpit
200
the group of policy-related offices that serve as support staff to the president.
The Executive Office of the President (EOP)
200
Amtrak would be an example of this type of Bureaucracy
What is a Government Corporation
200
this act forced the hiring of bureaucrats to be based on merit rather than connections
What is Pendleton
200
Television, Radio, Newspapers, the Internet etc make up this type of Media
What is Mass Media
300
An informal power the President has with foreign nations , used mostly in trading matters
What is Executive Agreement
300
the government position whose responsibility is to serve as the president of the Senate
What is vice president
300
The Food and Drug Administration is an example of what type of bureaucratic agency
What is Independent regulatory agency
300
time in which Roosevelt crafted programs to pick America up after the Great Depression
What is The New Deal
300
This position of the White House, is the mouth piece of the President
What is Press Secretary
400
What act has attempted to limit the President as Commander in Chief
War Powers Act
400
What part of E.O.P. has enormous power because of its ability to allocate money to the cabinet departments
Office of Management and Budget
400
The rule-making process has fostered the creation of iron triangles, typically these triangles are informal alliances made of what three groups
Interest groups/lobbyist Congressional committees Bureaucratic Agencies
400
This Act attempted to prohibit government employees from active participation in partisan politics, today it is limited as a whole to not being able to run for office or campaign on Government time for a candidate
What is Hatch Act
400
When the media attempts to compare the events of the Iraq War and Vietnam in a news story, this would be an example of issue _________
Framing
500
The President has been able to expand their power due to this specific clause in Article II
What is Take Care Clause
500
This phenomenon occurs when voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the president's party because those candidates support the president
What is Coattails
500
Independent Regulatory Agencies have the responsibility of filling in gaps, writing rules, rule enforcement and punishing violators. These responsibilities best fit what type of Power
What is Quasi Power
500
society under President Johnson that housed the time of loans for college, health care for seniors, special education, etc.
What is The Great Society
500
This is method of government preventing material from being published.. this method is very rare since it has mostly been ruled as an unconstitutional violation of Freedom of Press
What is prior restraint
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