Spring 2020: POLI 308: Bill Newmann
Review Sheet 1
This
looks big, but don't worry. If you have
come to class and done all the reading, nothing here should be new to you.
Also, though there are a lot of
terms, obviously, not each one of them is the subject of an essay. These terms,
in order, are an outline of everything we've done so far. A group of them might
be the subject of an essay. Usually, you can't explain a single term without
referring to the terms next to it. So, really, if you can say one or two things
about each term and how it relates to the terms around it and fits into the
larger issues and concepts related to terrorism, you're doing fine. Some terms,
however, are filled with enough significance to be short
answers/identifications on the test (four or five sentences), but you'll be
able to figure out which ones.
The
changes in the readings are the following:
·
For the first
exam you’ll be responsible for
o
Suri, Chapters
1-3
o
Goodwin, chapters
1-12.
·
Week 7 readings
will be on the second exam.
Terms
with (*) in front of them may not have been included in the lectures, but were
discussed, at length, in the readings.
Please,
any questions, come to office hours or send me an email.
List of Terms: (Those terms preceded by an (*) are
found primarily in the readings)
Impeachment (from lectures and CRS Report)
*definition of impeachable conduct
(categories of impeachment grounds)
*process of impeachment
Articles of impeachment against
President Trump
US aid to Ukraine and Trump
suspension of aid
Introduction to the Presidency
1.
Approaches to the Presidency
Historical
Approach
Institutional
Approach
Character
Approach
2. Presidential Domination
3.
Cycles of Presidential power
Constitution and Early Presidencies
Articles of Confederation and
Executive Power?
*gridlock in Articles of
Confederation era (1781-1787)
Framers nervousness about Executive
Power
*finding a balance between royal
tyranny and war of all against all
*nervous about legislative
dictatorship
Problems of Legislative dominance and
lack of unifying structures for colonies
1787 Continental Congress
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Views of Executive Power:
*expansive
presidential power: anything that is not specifically someone else’s power is
the presidents
Constitution with Executive ratified;
Bill of Rights in the deal
Comparison of powers of Congress in
Article I vs. Article II
Electoral College
*12th amendment and 1800 election
Electoral vote vs. popular vote
problems
Definition
of the Modern Presidency
Expectations
Presidential
domination
Two
Presidencies
US v.
Curtiss Wright
Judicial
Review
Executive
Orders
Presidents interpreting laws and
seeing if it sticks
Electoral
College role in choosing the president
Popular
vote vs. electoral college and how things can go wrong
No one wins electoral vote or a tie:
what happens
Popular vote winner loses electoral college
12th
Amendment
Models of Presidential Government and
Pre-Modern Presidents
Hamiltonian
Model
*President focuses on
small number of important issues
*Hamilton’s role
*Washington and
Whiskey Rebellion
*Washington’s
Neutrality Proclamation in French-British War
*Congressional
argument (Jefferson too)
Madisonian
Model
Adams
Jeffersonian
Model
Thomas Jefferson in
office
governing
based on philosophy/ideas
courting
members of Congress
Congress as partner
Jacksonian
Model
Jackson’s rhetoric
*as an outside
*populist president
*popular
sovereignty
*elites vs. the people
*The president and the people in
Jackson’s view
*Indian Removal Act and Trail of
Tears
Vetoes
Jackson's Theory of the Presidency --
Political competition for power
*Jackson and the Bank
*Goodwin’s thesis
*adversity and events
Abraham Lincoln:
*poverty background
* Always a great communicator
*against slavery, but compromises in
legislature
*Lincoln-Douglas debates: Lincoln:
containment of slavery
*Team of Rivals
*Emancipation proclamation
*as a strategy to win the war
*timing of the proclamation
Presidential Dominance under Lincoln
Slavery as a moral issue and tactical
issue for Lincoln
Lincoln as a master politician
Post-Lincoln -- Pre-Teddy Roosevelt
Era of Congressional Dominance
Theodore Roosevelt:
*his journey from ill and protected
to self-sufficient and strong
*State assembly and anti-corruption
*Family tragedy and stay in Badlands
*as crusading police commissioner
*assistant secretary of the Navy
*Spanish American War and Roughriders
*Vice Pres.
*Intervene in coal strike?
*and
presidential power
The role of the President
Stewardship Theory
*Bully Pulpit
FDR:
*wealthy family
*natural optimism
*role of Eleanor as social conscience
*Assistant Secretary of the Navy
*polio and the way he fights it
*As Governor: unemployment insurance
bill in NY
*Goal: give confidence
*His team: committed allies, not
rivals
*Fireside chats
The Modern Presidency:
1789-1933: First Republic of US?
1933-Present: Second Republic of US?
The
Depression
Hoover's ideas about Depression and
his solutions
FDR's ideas on the Depression
Election of 1932
*Public support for dictatorial
presidential powers during depression
Brains trust (not the specific people,
but the diversity of the ideas)
*The method of FDR decision making –
competitive)
Theories of the Governmental Role in
the Economy:
Money circulates and as long as it
does, everything is fin
1. Classical Liberalism
2. Modern Liberalism
FDR's New Deal:
1. Government Role in the Economy:
·
patronage
1.
WPA
·
regulatory
policy
1.
NIRA
and NRA Eagle
·
redistributive
policy
1.
Social
security
2. President's Role:
Legislator-in-Chief
3. Enlargement of Federal Government
White
House Office
Executive
Office of the President
"Presidential
Branch"
4. Precedents and Expectations
100
Days
Federal
Government as Provider of Services
5. Electoral realignment
The New Deal Coalition (This is very important; we discussed
it twice)
FDR's leadership and bringing hope to
the US people
Harry Truman and Agenda Setting:
Why FDR chose him in
1944
Bipartisanship
Truman,
Vandenberg, and Truman Doctrine speech
Demagoguery
McCarthy and Roy Cohn
The style of politics
Cohn’s protégé Donald Trump
22nd
Amendment
Candidate-centered
politics in presidential elections
Eisenhower wanted by both Democrats and Republicans for 1952
Donald
Trump as an example of this
Eisenhower as the Father of
Presidential Management:
Eisenhower's Legacy: Managing the
Federal Government
Organizations are:
Can you get the Federal Government to
operate in a unified manner?
Eisenhower's answer:
Ike's management of the presidency:
1. Delegation
President's
role
Cabinet
Secretaries role
2. Interagency
process--institutionalizing coordination
3. Staff System
Sherman
Adams' role
*Managing
access to the president
JFK and Advising
Controversy over first Catholic
President
Kennedy-Nixon debates
The importance of presidential
advisors
Dual role of Cabinet senior advisors
Three kinds of advisors and why a
president wants each type
LBJ:
*Dad in legislature
*progressive
politician
*only received conditional love from mother;
treated staff the same way
*the way he moves up in the world –
get close to people with power
*College:
from janitor to advisor to college president
*Cotulla School and his feelings
about poverty
*Lobbying FDR for electricity in Hill
Country near Austin
*His brutality and generosity as a
boss
*After heart attack: need for legacy,
not just power
*importance
of New Deal and Cotulla experience
*Completing JFK agenda
Essence of Presidential Power:
(Neustadt)
Persuasion/Bargaining
LBJ's political method: Finding out
who wants what and doling out favors
His view of legislation: Bargaining
and negotiation
LBJ on Civil Rights:
Civil
Rights Act 1964
Voting
Rights Act 1965
His persuasion method on Civil
Rights:
Persuasion in a fragmented society:
Timing and Persuasion:
1964 Election
*The Great Society: