Am Gov Unit 8 Flashcards
Authority claimed by the president that is not clearly specified in the Constitution. Typically, these powers are inferred from the Constitution.
Inherent powers
Presidential directives that create or modify laws and public policies, without the direct approval of Congress.
Executive orders
This 1973 enactment was directed at ending the president’s ability to pursue armed conflict without explicit congressional approval.
War Powers Resolution
The situation in which one party controls the White House and the other controls at least one house of Congress.
Divided government
A situation in which government is incapable of acting on important issues.
Gridlock
An endorsement by voters. Presidents sometimes argue they have been given a mandate to carry out policy proposals.
Electoral mandate
A large, complex organization in which employees have specific job responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority.
Bureaucracy
The biggest units of the executive branch, covering a broad area of government responsibility. The heads of the departments, or secretaries, form the president’s cabinet.
Departments
Executive agencies that are not part of a cabinet department.
Independent agencies
Agencies of the executive branch of government that control or direct some aspect of the economy.
Regulatory commissions
The system by which most appointments to the federal bureaucracy are made, to ensure that government jobs are filled on the basis of merit and that employees are not fired for political reasons.
Civil service
Administrative rules that guide the operation of a government program.
Regulations
Government intervention in the workings of a business market to promote some socially desired goal.
Regulation
A bureaucratic reform by which the government reduces its role as a regulator of business.
Deregulation
