Executive Branch & Bureaucracy
Learning Objectives
- What are the roles of the President?
- What are the formal and informal powers of the President?
- Should our president be stronger or weaker than Congress?
- Why was the Electoral College established?
- Does the character of a president make a difference in how he does his job?
- What are the main differences between the White House Staff and the Cabinet?
- What factors have led to the expansion of Presidential power?
- How does the President utilize executive orders and agreements to circumvent Congress?
- What happened to make the bureaucracy a “fourth branch” of national government?
- What is the role of the federal bureaucracy in implementing, managing, and evaluating federal policy?
- What are the different types of bureaucratic institutions and how does their oversight reflect their function?
- What efforts have been made to reform the bureaucracy?
Vocabulary
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Legislative veto
Line-item veto Impeachment Impoundment Bureaucracy Regulatory Commissions
Executive orders Executive agreements Executive privilege Take Care Clause |
Merit system
Standard operating procedures White House Staff Cabinet Iron Triangle iron triangles
patronage civil service merit principle Office of Personnel Management (OPM) GS (General Scheduling) rating |
Issue Network
Revolving door Executive Office of the President Independent Agencies Government Corporations Senior Executive Service (SES)
independent regulatory commission government corporations independent executive agency policy implementation administrative discretion discretionary authority |
Executive Branch in the News |
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Text Reading Guides (Optional)
Reading Guide Pages 360-365
Reading Guide Pages 366-370
Reading Guide Pages 371-380
Reading Guide Pages 381-390
Reading Guide Pages 394-401
Reading Guide Pages 402-407
Reading Guide Pages 407-412
Reading Guide Pages 413-418
Assignments & Handouts
Assignments & Handouts
Roles & Powers of POTUS doc
Roles & Powers of POTUS key
Expanding Powers of POTUS docs
You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse Under Obama doc
The White House & Cabinet disc
Organization of the Bureaucracy doc
Bureaucratic Pizza doc
Bureaucracy Webquest doc
Bureaucracy Infographic Rubric doc
Infographic Research doc
Piktochart Tutorial video
Bureaucratic Pathologies doc
Holy Government doc
Iron Triangles Reading doc
POTUS Review
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