American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH| 311 annual State of the Union address, at least one member of the cabinet is assigned to be somewhere els ...

312 CHAPTER 10|THE PRESIDENCY THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NUTS & bolts Council of Economic Advisers Offi ce of N ...

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH| 313 pro tempore of the Senate, who in turn typically gives the duty to a more junior member. The vice pre ...

314 CHAPTER 10|THE PRESIDENCY CABINET POSITIONS The president’s Cabinet is composed of the heads of the 15 executive departmen ...

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND THE PRESIDENT| 315 conditions also contributed to President Obama’s relatively low approval ratings dur ...

316 CHAPTER 10|THE PRESIDENCY unilateral action (presiden- tial) Any policy decision made and acted upon by the president and ...

ASSESSING PRESIDENTIAL POWER| 317 Congress or anyone else. The 2007 debate over funding the war in Iraq provides a good example ...

318 CHAPTER 10|THE PRESIDENCY members of Congress delegate authority to the president or the executive branch bureaucracy for ...

STUDY GUIDE|^319 AMERICA’S PRESIDENTS E Trace the evolution of presidential power over time. Pages 295–97 THE PRESIDENT’S JOB D ...

320 CHAPTER 10|THE PRESIDENCY For most presidents, the problem with going public is that __. a) the public is more focused on ...

STUDY GUIDE|^321 Presidents in their second term worry about public opinion __ than/as presidents in their fi rst term. a) muc ...

The Bureaucracy 322 11 ...

323 THE FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE Agency (FHFA) supervises corporations responsible for the mortgages on millions of American home ...

324 CHAPTER 11|THE BUREAUCRACY CHAPTER goals Defi ne bureaucracy and explain its major functions. ¾ PAGES 325–31 Trace the exp ...

WHAT IS THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY?| 325 What Is the Federal Bureaucracy? The federal bureaucracy that makes up the government’s e ...

326 CHAPTER 11|THE BUREAUCRACY (FDA) the job of determining which drugs are safe and eff ective, but it allowed FDA bureaucrat ...

WHAT IS THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY?| 327 ulations should look—and even when they don’t, they may still get involved on behalf of a ...

for patients have argued that people with dire prognoses should be allowed to use an experimental treatment as a potentially lif ...

WHAT IS THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY?| 329 Bureaucratic Expertise and Its Consequences Bureaucrats are experts. Even compared to mos ...

330 CHAPTER 11|THE BUREAUCRACY THE PROBLEM OF CONTROL The diffi culty that elected offi cials and their staff face when trying ...