Study Guide
Test 3 Wednesday May 8th 10:30 am
Chapters 8 and 10 in text
Topics
Roles of the ex-presidents
Benefits and Perks for
ex-presidents
Reforming the presidency
What is the role of the White
House Staff?
How can the president control the bureaucracy?
Why is
the bureaucracy so difficult to control?
Future of the presidency
How can Congress retake some of its powers?
Is the War on Terror an abuse of presidential power?
Test 2 Friday April 5th
Chapters 3, 5, and 6
Topics
1. Roles of
Vice President
2. Growth of the office of VP
3. Why president is
isolated
4. Relationship of the president and Congress
5. Tools of
president with Congress
6. Tools of the Congress in relations with
president
7. President and Public Opinion--why his popularity goes up
and down
8. President and the Media--nature of the relationship and
what tools each has to work with in attempting to get the upper hand.
Test 1 Wednesday
February 20th 2013
Readings: Chapter 1
and 2 Warshaw' Text
Topics
Roles of the president--duties under each
Limits on the powers of
the president
What has lead to the modern presidency
Post Cold War
Presidency
What needs to be changed in Post Cold War Presidency
Differences
between the Cold War and Post Cold War Presidency
Considerations before
running for president--personal and political
Why the president is more
powerful in foreign than domestic policy
Test 3 Wednesday May 4the at 10:30 am
Chapters 8,
10,11,12,14,15.
Topics
1. President and Congress-powers of each
2. President and the
Courts-how the president exerts influence
3. How the president makes
foreign policy
4. President use of resources to make domestic policy
5. How does decision-making differ from foreign to domestic policy
6.
How the president acts unilaterally?
7. What reforms are necessary in
the presidency?
8. What reforms are possible in the presidency?
9.
Does the presidency have too much or not enough power?
Test 1 Wednesday
February 14th 2011
Readings: Chapter 1
and 2 in Edwards' Text
Topics
Roles of the president--duties under each
Limits on the powers of
the president
Limits on presidential power
What has lead to the
modern presidency
Approaches to the study of the presidency
Advantages of sitting president
Considerations before running for
president--personal and political
Why the president is more powerful in
foreign than domestic policy
Test 3 Friday
December 14th 10:30
Chapters 6,7,8.
1. Advising the President
Role of the White
House Staff
Problems the President faces in decision making
Problems in advising the president
2. Why is it difficult for the
president to be popular in today's environment?
3. Role of VP in modern
times
How Biden VP differs from Chaney
4. Qualities of a good
president
5. What is emotional intelligence and how does it impact the
presidency?
Test 2 Friday
November 6th
Chapters 2, 3 4, and 5
1. Electoral College
What is it?
How does it operate?
How does it impact the political system?
Why change it?
2. Differences Caucus, convention, primaries
3. Congress and the President
What the president does to influence Congress
Limits by Congress on presidential power
4. President and the Supreme Court
How the president attempts to influence the Courts
How Supreme Court can limit the president
5.
Presidential Popularity
What
makes presidential popularity go up and down
Impact of presidential popularity on policy
How president attempts to influence public opinion
Test 1 Wednesday
September 30th
Readings: Chapter 1
in Warshaw
On Topics and Readings page:
Postmodern President
Roles of the President
Signing Statements
Military Commission Act
Japanese Internment
Secret Renditions
Topics
What has produced
President-Centered government
Roles of the President
Duties under each roll
Limits on the powers of the president
What produced modern presidency?
How has 9/11 changed the presidency?
Limits on presidential power
Test 3 Monday, May 7th, 10:30
Chapters: 6,7,8,9,10
Topics
1.Vice President
2. Cabinet
3. White House Staff
4. Executive Office of the President
5. Bureaucracy
Additional topics from notes:
6. Barber's Personality types
7. Presidential Ecosystem
8. Nation of Victims article
Test 2 Wednesday April 4th
Chapters 3,4,5,6
Topics
President and Congress
President and the Bureaucracy
President and the Supreme Court
President and Media--Powers and resources of the president and others
who participate in a relationship to the president: Congress,
Bureaucracy, Media Judiciary. What makes for success or failure in
the president's efforts with these other actors.
Presidential Greatness--what makes a president great
Importance of presidential popularity
What makes popularity go up and down?
What can president do to improve popularity ratings
How does the president monitor popularity?
Test 1 Wednesday
February 21st
Test covers Chapters 1and 2 and the notes.
Topics
Chapter 1
What has produced
President-Centered government
Roles of the President
Duties under each roll
Limits on the powers of the president
What produced modern presidency?
How has 9/11 changed the presidency?
Limits on presidential power
President and Media--Resources
War Powers Act
Chapter 2
Nomination procedures
How primary system works
What are weaknesses of primary system
Role of Convention
How to improve selection process
How come voters are unable to make rational choices among candidates
What does it take to run for president
Strategies for presidential candidates in primary and general elections
Test 3 Wednesday
May 4th 10:30
Chapters 4,5,13,15
Topics
Reforms--campaign finance
responsible parties model-running with cabinet
running on platform
answering to Congress
Vice President--roles
historical development
President and Foreign Policy Making
President and Domestic Policy Making
Presidential Greatness--what factors lead to greatness
Test 2 Wednesday
April 6th
Chapters 9, 10, 11,12
Topics
President as an Institution
President and Congress
President and the Bureaucracy
President and the Judiciary
How decisions are made in policy
Presidential commissions
Personality of the president
Styles of the President in decision-making
Factors that limit decision-making
Isolation of the president
Powers and resources of the president and others who participate in a
relationship to the president: Congress, Bureaucracy, Judiciary.
What makes for success or failure in the president's efforts with these
other actors.
Test 1 Wednesday
February 16th
Topics
What has produced President-Centered government
Roles of the President
Duties under each roll
Limits on the powers of the president
Pre, Modern and Post Modern presidency
What each is.
What produced modern presidency and post-modern
How modern presidency differ from post modern
How has 9/11 changed the Post-Modern presidency
President and Media--Resources
President and Public--What produces "ups and downs" in popularity
Chapters 1,3,7,8
Test 2 Monday
March 29th
Constitutional powers—big c and small c
How the presidency changed the Constitution
informally
Weaknesses of the primary system
Role of presidential polling
Presidential Popularity
What makes it go up and down?
Patterns of presidential popularity
Television and the presidency
President and media
Nature of relations
Resources of each side
How media has changed in our time
Chapter 7,8
Test 3
Monday May 3rd 10:30
Chapters 6 (pp. 148-164), 10,11,12
Topics
President and Interest Groups
Why president turned to interest groups
Relationship based on which factors
What interest groups want from the president
President and Congress
Policy and support from Congress
Party control and presidential success
Popularity and Congressional success
How to use the veto
President and Bureaucracy
Tools of presidential control over the bureaucracy
Congressional limits on presidential influence
Limits on presidential power by the bureaucracy
Why bureaucracy so important today
President and Judiciary
How decisions are made in White House
What the president is looking for in candidates
What the president can do to influence the selection process
Bush vs. Gore
Arguments on both sides
What the Supreme Court said
VP
How VP has changed
What uses the president has made of the VP
Possible future
President Future Directions
Postmodern or return to Cold War President
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