Summer
2015: POLI 308: Bill Newmann
Review
Sheet 1
Jeri
Newmann
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.
Terms with (*) in front of them may have been
included in the lectures, but were discussed, at length, in the readings.
The
exam will consist of two parts:
Part
One:
20 Multiple Choice Questions (4 points each -- 80 points):
Part
Two:
short essay: Chose 2 of 5 (10 points each)
List
of Terms: (Those terms preceded by an (*) are found primarily in
the readings)
Skowronek’s Theory
Political and economic orders or regimes
The political context of those regimes/orders
A cycle of regimes that rise and fall
Regimes are dominated by the president
Politics of reconstruction
Politics of disjunction
Introduction
to the Presidency
Methods
of studying the presidency:
Three
Key Issues
States, Congress, Presidency,
Courts, Parties, People, Bureaucracy, Media
Cycles of power -- strong and
weak presidents
Constitution
and Early Presidencies
Articles
of Confederation and Executive Power?
Framers
nervousness about Executive Power
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
Separation
of Powers or Shared Powers?
Pre-Modern and Modern Presidency thesis and
criticism
Modern presidency as “imperial presidency”
how presidents nearly always accumulate power
Models of Presidential Government
Election of 1824 and
1828
Jackson’s
rhetoric
elites vs. the people
The
president and the people in Jackson’s view
Vetoes
Jackson's
Theory of the Presidency -- Political competition for power
Abraham
Lincoln:
Presidential
Dominance under Lincoln
Lincoln,
Slavery, and maintaining the Union
Lincoln
as a master politician
Post-Lincoln
-- Pre-T. Roosevelt
Era of
Congressional Dominance
Theodore
Roosevelt:
Stewardship
Theory
Bully
Pulpit