Review Two

POLI 308

Summer 2015

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.

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)

FDR:

The Modern Presidency:

• Expectation of a Strong president
• A revolution in Government--the Demand for presidential government

1789-1933: First Republic of US?

1933-Present: Second Republic of US?

FDR and the New Deal: A new philosophy of Government

*Hoover and the politics of disjunction

*FDR and the politics of reconstruction

*The Depression

*Hoover's ideas about Depression and his solutions

*FDR's ideas on the Depression

FDR rhetoric

Election of 1932

Theories of the Governmental Role in the Economy:

1. Classical Liberalism

• Market Forces
• Business Cycle as self-regulating
• Minimal Government Role

2. Modern Liberalism

• John Maynard Keynes
• Business Cycle as sometimes non-self-regulating
• Importance of Government Role

FDR's New Deal:

1. Government Role in the Economy:

· *patronage

1. Government creating jobs (some of the programs)

· *regulatory policy

1. *NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration)

· *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

*FDR's leadership and bringing hope to the US people

*FDR's Character and Life

*Criticism of New Deal

*critics accusing New Deal of being socialism

Harry Truman and Agenda Setting:

• Understanding trends
• Prediction
• Understanding impact of events
• Timing
• Salesmanship

Truman Doctrine: Setting the post-war foreign policy agenda

• US as a world power
• Fighting communism

Creating a consensus: Truman Doctrine speech

His success

22^nd Amendment

Candidate-centered politics in presidential elections 

Eisenhower anted by both Democrats and Republicans for 1952

Eisenhower as the Father of Presidential Management:

Eisenhower's Legacy: Managing the Federal Government

Organizations are:

• Semi-independence
• Budget and turf battles
• Organizational Culture
• Standard Operating Procedures

Can you get the Federal Government to operate in a unified manner?

Eisenhower's answer:

• President's main role: COORDINATION
• Setting overall policy guidelines

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