Congress
The redistribution of representatives among the states based on population change. The House is experiences this after each census.
What is reapportionment?
A term that refers to the presidency as an office well suited to communicating directly with the public in order to advocate legislation.
What is a bully pulpit?
An organization that administers or carries out a set of activities.
What is the bureaucracy?
A judicial ruling that serves as the basis for the ruling in a subsequent case.
What is precedent?
The redrawing of a congressional district to intentionally benefit one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
Authority claimed by the president that is not clearly specified in the Constitution. Typically, these powers are inferred from the Constitution.
What are inherent powers?
The system by which most appointments to the federal bureaucracy are made to ensure that government jobs are filled on the basis of merit and that employees are not fired for political reasons.
What is the civil service?
The third highest official of the US Department of Justice, and the person who represents the national government before the US Supreme Court.
Who is the solicitor general?
The process of reviewing the operations of an agency to determine whether it is carrying out policies as Congress intended.
What is oversight?
The president’s chief of staff and closest advisors; coordinates the president’s schedule, press relations, and political strategy.
What is the White House Office (WHO)?
An approach to leadership whereby managers and executives of bureaucracies articulate public value, secure external legitimacy, and maintain capabilities for their organizations to succeed.
What is the strategic triangle?
A norm under which a nomination must be acceptable to the home state senator from the president’s party.
What is senatorial courtesy?
The mechanism by which a filibuster is cut off in the Senate.
What is cloture?
The situation in which one party controls the White House and the other controls at least one house of Congress.
What is a divided government?
Policymaking characterized by a series of decisions, each instituting modest change.
What is incrementalism?
Judicial interpretation of legislative acts that clarify the meaning of law.
What is staturory construction?
A representative who is obligated to consider the views of constituents but is not obligated to vote according to those views if he or she believes they are misguided.
What is a trustee?
A highly classified presidential order that guides national security policy.
What is a national security directives (NSDs)?
A formal group of people drawn from communities that a government agency serves to help the agency solve problems and hold it accountable for its work.
What is an agency advisory committee?
These terms refer to the following:
A judicial philosophy by which judges tend to defer to decisions of the elected branches of government
and
A judicial philosophy by which judges tend not to defer to decisions of the elected branches of government, resulting in the invalidation or weakening of those decisions.
What is judicial restraint and judicial activism?