POL214Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter tutorial: Face-Off
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Possess power to control executive authority and legislative deliberations. Make multitudes of senior governmental and public service appointments: cabinet members, ambassadors, crown corporation execs, senate, governor. Party discipline, public inattention, imbalance of cabinet, and oppositions resources provide reason to doubt that there are adequate restrains given the public money and critical issues at stake. Media may not have resource to sufficiently cover full ranges of prime-ministerial power. People are not demanding for such issues to be provided, rather tv ratings show news are going down and instead more played in classrooms than real world. Government media advisors, pollsters, etc. , serving pm can influence media to portray. Pm in certain lights that are better than what it is. Federal govt has been able to shape events through the power to spend or to withhold spending, or to re-shape patters of federal-provincial interactions. White federalism and strong pro(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial go(cid:448)ts. are a restrai(cid:374)t, do(cid:374)"t overlook/underestimate strength of federal govt positions.
