POLI SCI 220- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 107 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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There is a hierarchy graph look on powerpoint. A diverse collection of departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions, and other units of the executive branch that can carry out government policies. Congress creates new agencies but the president has significant control over policy implementation. Replace spoils system, though political appointments remai for top level bureaucrats. Bureaucracy can help to solve collective dilemmas. Regulation ca hep coordinate commercial activities, solve prisoner"s" dilemmas. Allow for quick and concerted action during times of national crisis. Have power recede when crisis is over. Early presidency largely conforms to this model. Modern (post 1932) presidency; president now chief legislator, manager of massive bureaucracy, popular leaders, commander-in-chief. The power of the president is the power to persuade . The (cid:3247)johnson treatment(cid:3248: problems with president as bargainer. Rise of mass media coverage and public relations war. Result: breakdown in bargaining rise of going public and unilateral action: going public. Was 30 min late to class, look at pp.
