Hershey Chapter 14 Flashcards
1
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Different ways President can act as party leader
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- Recruit/campaign money for the party
2
Q
Campaigner-in-chief
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- More successful when their party is majority in Congress
2. Re/Decruit candidates for other prominent positions, such as state governors
3
Q
Coattails/why coattail effects decreased from WWII to 1980’s.
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- Coattails- victorious Presidents bring in same party’s Congressmen in the election cycle
- Decline in that period due to high incumbency rates
4
Q
Divided gov’t, implications for President
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- Much less support for President
2. Can either negotiate with or roadblock other party
5
Q
Constraints on President to influence bureaucratic agencies and departments
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- Limited influence by President, non-party aligned workers in these jobs
- Also cannot maintain their inherit political aligning or actions
6
Q
Changing partisan perspective in the federal bureaucracy
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- Small indications of party alignments in promoting the Presidents agenda
7
Q
Evidence of judicial voting along party lines
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- Most judges previously held/worked political jobs
2. Republican/Democratic nominees lean towards party values when voting
8
Q
Reasons for partisan behavior in courts
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- Attempt by parties to influence court decisions
- Work as lawyers/professionals in party-organizations
- Look at personal beliefs/experiences to fit party lines
9
Q
Party considerations in appointing federal judges
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- Appoint judges to uphold your policies
- Senate action on nominations also more partisan
- Polarization between judges of opposing sides
- Less mediation/moderate viewpoints
10
Q
Merit appointment of state judges
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- Elected and not appointed
- Some states have non-partisan elections
- Funded by groups, looks bad tho.
- Put on a merit appointment through independent commissions
11
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Retention election
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- Elections to keep/replace judges to balance them
