Congress
Bill introduction, committee assignment, hearings, reporting a bill, scheduling debate (House then Senate), floor debate, reconciling difference, Presidential review
How does a bill become law?
Commander-in-Chief, treaty-making authority, appointing ambassadors, and receiving foreign ministers.
What are Pre-Modern Presidential Principle Powers?
Independence executive agencies, Independent regulatory agencies, Government corporations or foundations
What three categories do non-cabinet agencies tend to fall into?
What are the benefits of a professionalized civil service over the spoils system?
Jobs are earned based on education, expertise, merit, the professionalized civil service is more stable than the spoils system and has less corruption than the spoils system
Limited information, coordination issues, conflicts, free-riding and collective action problems, transaction costs, and time pressures.
What are obstacles Congress must overcome?
An expansion of the federal government into domestic policy, bureaucracy, and foreign relations internationally.
What are causes for the expansion of the Office of the President?
Growth of economy, Favoritism, Urbanization, Industrialization, Public expectations, Corruption
What are the reasons that the bureaucracy grew?
What are the goals of gerrymandering?
Either to suppress voter turnout or boost voter turnout of a particular group
The court case that resolved that districts cannot be drawn according to race.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
The expansion of Presidential power created in 1939 by Congress that encompasses the Office of Management and Budget, The White House Office, and the National Security Council.
What is the Executive Office of the President?
The Pendleton Act of 1883
[3 possible answers]
What legislation became the foundation for what we think of as a modern civil service?
What legislation was founded on the idea that individuals will be selected for jobs based on their experience, education, or expertise?
What legislation essentially ended the ‘Spoils System’?
Who ‘controls’ the bureaucracy? (3 total answers)
The President, Congress, The Courts
A committee in the House or Representatives that is responsible for setting the terms of a debate for a bill.
What is The Rules Committee?
Primarily managing the President’s objectives, serving as a chain of command link, and ensuring departments are implementing the President’s directives.
What are primary jobs of the Chief of Staff?
Entrepreneurial agency (e.g. Food and Drug Administration), Interest-group agencies (e.g. OSHA), Majoritarian agencies (e.g. Federal Trade Commission), Client agencies (e.g. National Science Foundation)
What are the different types of constituencies served by organizations?
What are the stages of the partisan cycle?
Reconstruction, Articulation, Preemption, and Disjunction
An agreement reached between party leaders in the Senate to set the parameters of a debate, but are not as rigid as the rules set by the Rules Committee in the House.
What is a Unanimous Consent Agreement (UCA)?
Legal authority, Bargaining skill, personal popularity, and extralegal activities.
What are sources of Presidential Power?
Hierarchical structure, Division of Labor, Career Bureaucracy, Specific Goals, Consistent Rules
What is included in Weber’s view of bureaucracy?
What factors influence the president’s ranking of greatness? (6 total answers)
Tenure in office, intellectual brilliance, economic growth, military heroes, scandals, wars