Ch 13 & 14 Vocabulary Flashcards
The authority vested in the president to fill a government office or position.
Appointment Power
The power vested in the U.S. Senate by the Constitution (Article II, Section 2) to give its advice and consent to the president on treaties and presidential appointments.
Advice and Consent
An advisory group selected by the president to aid in making decisions.
Cabinet
The role of the president in recognizing foreign governments, making treaties, and making executive agreements.
Chief Diplomat
The role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government.
Chief Executive
The role of the president in influencing the making of laws.
Chief Legislator
The person who is named to direct the White House Office and advise the president.
Chief of Staff
The role of the president as ceremonial head of the government.
Chief of State
A collective term for the body of employees working for the government.
Civil Service
The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and the state National Guard units when they are called into federal service.
Commander in Chief
Power vested in the president by Article II of the constitution
Constitutional Power
A staff agency in the Executive Office of the President that advises the President on measures to maintain stability in the nation’s economy; established in 1946
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
The president’s power, as chief diplomat, to acknowledge a foreign government as legitimate
Diplomatic Recognition
An inherent power exercised by the president during a period of national crisis, particularly in foreign affairs
Emergency Power
An international agreement made by the president, without senatorial ratification, with the head of a foreign state
Executive Agreement
Established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt by executive order under the Reorganization Act of 1939, the EOP currently consists of 10 staff agencies that assist the president in carrying out major duties.
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
A rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law
Executive Order
The right executive officials to refuse to appear before, or to withhold information from, a legislative committee.
Executive Privilege
A constitutional or statutory power of the president, which is expressly written into the constitution or into statutory law.
Expressed Power
A publication of the executive branch of the US government that prints executive orders, rules, and regulations.
Federal Register
As authorized by Articles I and II the constitution, an action by the House of Representatives and the Senate to remove the president, vice president, or civil officers of United States from office for crimes of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Impeachment
The power of the president derived from the loosely worded statement in the Constitution that “the executive power shall be vested in a president” and that the president should “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Inherent power
The informal advisers to the president
Kitchen cabinet
The power of an executive to veto individual lines or items within a piece of legislation without vetoing the entire bill.
Line-item veto
A staff agency in the executive office of the president established by the national security act of 1947.
National Security Council (NSC)
A division of the executive office of the president created by executive order in 1970 to replace the bureau of the budget.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
The granting of a release from the punishment or legal consequences of a crime.
Pardon
Rewarding faithful party workers and followers with government employment and contracts.
Patronage
A special veto power exercised by the chief executive after a legislative body has adjourned.
Pocket veto
The presidential power to postpone the execution of a sentence imposed by a court of law.
Reprieve
An annual message to Congress in which the president proposes a legislative program.
State of the Union message
A power created for the president through laws enacted by Congress.
Statutory Power
An amendment to the constitution, adopted in 1804, that specifies the separate election of the president and vice president by the Electoral College
The 12th amendment
An amendment to the constitution adopted in 1967 that establishes procedures for filling vacancies in the two top executive offices and that makes provisions for situations involving presidential disability
25th amendment
The president’s formal explanation of a veto when legislation is returned to Congress.
Veto message
A law passed in 1973 spelling out the conditions under which the president can commit troops without congressional approval.
War Powers resolution
Individuals regularly involved with politics in Washington DC
Washington Community
The personal office of the president, which tends to presidential political needs in manages the media
White House Office
A model of bureaucracy that views top level bureaucrats as seeking constantly to expand the size of their budgets and the stack of their departments or agencies so as to gain greater power and influence in the public sector
Acquisitive Model
A federal, state, or local government unit established to perform a specific function.
Administrative agency
The passage, by Congress, of a spending bill, specifying the amount of authorized fund that actually will be allocated for an agency’s use
Appropriation
A formal declaration by legislative committee that a certain amount of funding may be available to an agency.
Authorization
A large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions
Bureaucracy
One of the 14 departments of the executive branch.
Cabinet department
The act of gaining direct or indirect control over agency personnel and decision-makers by the industry that is being regulated.
Capture
The initial central personnel agency of the national government.
Civil service commission
The replacement of government services with services provided by private firms.
Contracting out
A statue enacted by Congress that authorizes the creation of an administrative agency in specifies the name, purpose, composition, functions, and powers of the agency being created.
Enabling legislation
A model of bureaucracy that characterizes bureaucracies as rudderless entities with little formal organization in which solutions to problems are based on trial and error rather than rational policy planning
Garbage can model
In agency of government that administers quasi-business in a price.
Government corporation
A law that requires all multiheaded federal agencies to conduct their business regularly in public session
Government in the sunshine act
The act that prohibits the use of federal authority to influence nominations and elections or the use of rank to pressure federal employees to make political contributions.
Hatch act
A federal agency that is not part of the cabinet department but reports directly to the president.
Independent executive agency
An agency outside the major executive department is charged with making and implementing rules and regulations to protect the public interest.
Independent regulatory agency
The three-way alliance among legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups to make or preserve policies that benefit their respective interests.
Iron triangle
A group of individuals or organizations which may consist of legislators or legislative staff members, interest group leaders, bureaucrats, the media, scholars, and other experts that supports a particularly policy position on a given issue, such as the one relating to the environment, taxation, or consumer safety.
Issued network
With respect to the federal government, an administrative unit that is directly accountable to the president.
Line organization
The selection, retention, and promotion of government employees on the basis of competitive examinations.
Merit system
A model of bureaucracy that compares bureaucracies to monopolistic business firms.
Monopolistic model
A small ruling clique of a society’s “best” citizens, whose membership is based on birth, wealth and ability.
Natural aristocracy
The law, as amended over the years, that remains the basic statue regulating federal employment personnel policies.
Pendleton act (Civil service reform act)
The awarding of government jobs to political supporters and friends.
Spoils system
A law requiring that an existing program be reviewed regularly for his effectiveness in the terminated unless specifically extended as a result of this review
Sunset legislation
A model of bureaucracy developed by the German sociologist Max Weber, who viewed bureaucracies as a rational, hierarchical organizations in which power flows from the top down and decisions are based on logical reasoning and data analysis.
Weberian Model
Someone who brings to public attention gross governmental inefficiency or any legal action.
Whistleblower
