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Study Guide(Exam 4)
Chapters 7,8,17,and 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agenda Setting | Determining which [public-policy] questions will be debated or considered. |
| Policy Formulation | The development, expression and adoption of a policy |
| Policy Adoption | Choosing a policy |
| Policy Implementation | policy action occurs |
| Policy Evaluation | Is it working?quality, goal attainment, program effectiveness, impact |
| Medicare | 1.A federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with disabilities |
| Medicaid | A federal system of health insurance for those requiring financial assistance |
| No Child Left Behind | Signed into law by President Bush in 2002, No Child Left Behind sets performance guidelines for all schools and also stipulates what must be included in accountability reports to parents |
| Access an quality of public education | Equality to education without discriminating children with dissabilities |
| Accountability of Education | Demostrating the worth of education |
| Arguments for and against health care reform | they think that the Obama's plan is going to kill us. |
| ideological preferences for education reform | Ways to help improve education |
| results-oriented accountability | The change in the lives of people outside the organization and achieving these bottom-line results is of absolute importance. |
| problems with energy policy | The attributes of energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques. |
| global warming | ising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation |
| alternative energy | any source of usable energy intended to replace fuel sources without the undesired consequences of the replaced fuels |
| Roles Of President | Chief diplomat,chief of state, commander in chief, chief legislator,chief executive, and head of political party. |
| chief diplomat | The president decides what American diplomats and ambassadors shall say to foreign governments. With the help of advisers, the president makes the foreign policy of the United States |
| chief of state | As the American Chief of State, the president is a living symbol of the nation. |
| commander in chief | The president is in charge of the U.S. armed forces: the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. The president decides where troops shall be stationed, where ships shall be sent, and how weapons shall be used. |
| chief legislator | Only Congress has the actual power to make laws. But the Constitution gives the president power to influence Congress in its lawmaking. Presidents may urge Congress to pass new laws or veto bills that they do not favor. |
| chief executive | The president is "boss" for millions of government workers in the Executive Branch, deciding how the laws of the United States are to be enforced and choosing officials and advisers to help run the Executive Branch. |
| Head of political party | the president helps members of his political party get elected or appointed to office. The president campaigns for those members who have supported his policies. At the end of a term the president may campaign for reelection. |
| qualifications for president | -35 or older -Got to be native-born in U.S -Must Live in the U.S for 14 years. |
| Electoral college | consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States |
| Constitutional powers of the President | The powers and duties of the president are outlined in Article II of the Constitution. |
| Maximum number of years President can serve | No More than 10 years |
| Inherent powers of the president | those powers that a sovereign state holds |
| Executive privilege | the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government |
| Executive order | an order issued by the President, the head of the executive branch of the federal government |
| Executive Agreement | An agreement made between the executive branch of the U.S. government and a foreign government without ratification by the senate |
| Power to recognize foreign governments | The President of the United States has numerous powers, including those explicitly granted by Article II of the Constitution, implicit powers, powers granted by Acts of Congress, and enormous influence and soft power from his position of leader of the U.S |
| Veto power | When the President vetoes a bill, it is returned to the Congress. If two thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate vote to override the veto, the bill becomes law without presidential approval. |
| Veto Overrides | is an action by legislators and decision-makers to override an act of veto by someone with such powers - thus forcing through a new decision |
| Pocket Veto | 1.An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session |
| US V. Nixon | was a unanimous 8-0 ruling involving President Richard Nixon and was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal. It is considered a crucial precedent limiting the power of any U.S. president |
| Article I | Article One of the United States Constitution describes the powers of Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. |
| Article II | creates the executive branch of the government, comprising the President and other executive officers. |
| 12th amendment | provides the procedure by which the President and Vice President are elected. It replaced , which provided the original procedure by which the Electoral College functioned |
| 20th amendment | establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices. |
| 22nd Amendment | sets a term limit for the President of the United States |
| 23rd amendment | permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President |
| 25th amendment | deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities |
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