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Lecture Topics
Introduction
Why Study the Presidency?
What The Framers' intended
The
Pre-modern, Modern
and Post-Modern Pres
Theories of presidential
power
The presidency
today
Impeachment
Presidential Roles
Chief of
State
Commander
and Chief
Chief Executive
Chief Diplomat
Chief Administrator
Legislative
Leader
Party
Leader
Leader
of the Economy
Presidential Power
Theories
Coalition Building
Personality
Limits of the President (Informal)
Public
Media
The Presidential Branch
Executive
Office
White House
Staff
National
Security Council
Presidents relationship to other branch:
Bureaucracy
Congress
Judiciary
Presidential Nomination and Election
Road to the White House
Role of
Electoral College
Issues Impacting the President
Domestic
Budget
Foreign Policy
Vice Presidency
Proposed Reforms of the Presidency
The Future of the Presidency
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Reading Assignments
Warshaw
Chapter 1,2,3
Paradoxes
of the Presidency
Post Cold War President
Discrediting U.S. Military
Postmodern
Presidency
Roles
of President
Warshaw
Chapters 4,5,6
Signing Statement
Worst
President Ever
Military_Commissions_Act
Japanese
Internment
Secret Renditions
Help in debates
Nation
of Victims
Trends in
Political Values
Qualities
Chapter 7,8
Presidential
Advisors
How
White House uses Polls
White
House Staff
National
Security Council
Cabinet
Chapters 10,11,12.
Chapter 4
Electoral
College
Chapters 14,15
Foreign
Policy Agenda Setting
Chapter 3
Lessons
of Victory and Defeat 2009
Bush's Foreign Policy
Obama's Foreign Policy
Office of VP
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