POL_SC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Supermajority, Government Debt, Peter Principle
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Corwin"s presidential hats : edward corwin wrote a book on presidency in the mid 50s suggesting that presidents have a number of different jobs, are changing jobs throughout the day putting on different hats. 1) Administrative chief, head of big organization, the executive branch. 2) chief executive hat: executing law, number one law enforcer. 3) third hat: foreign relations leader, chief diplomat, and responsibility to deal with foreign policy. 4) commander in chief hat, top of the chain on command. 5) legislative hat, legislative leader, legislative agenda does exist. 6) political hat, the leader of his party, unofficially. The president"s two main roles: 1) to be head of state. Makes presidency representative and provides ceremonial function, focus of a lot of feeling. 2) head of government: the person who enforces decisions. In other countries, they have two people who do these things, with the president being the ceremonial figure and the prime minister being the head of government.
