Which of the following May the president do to control the implementation of policy agenda?

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Executive Orders and Presidential Power

The Journal of Politics

Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1999)

, pp. 445-466 (22 pages)

Published By: The University of Chicago Press

https://doi.org/10.2307/2647511

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2647511

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This article reassesses the current paradigm of the presidential studies literature that holds that presidents have limited capacity to act unilaterally or make policy decisions on their own. I explore how presidents have used executive orders as a way of implementing significant policies unilaterally. Using an event-count analysis, I find that that the frequency of executive orders varies with substantive changes in the president's political environment. This evidence of a substantive component to order frequency shows that presidents can rely on their formal powers to make important policy decisions.

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Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue. Established in 1939 and published for the Southern Political Science Association, The Journal of Politics is a leading general-interest journal of political science and the oldest regional political science journal in the United States. The scholarship published in The Journal of Politics is theoretically innovative and methodologically diverse, and comprises a blend of the various intellectual approaches that make up the discipline. The Journal of Politics features balanced treatments of research from scholars around the world, in all subfields of political science including American politics, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and political methodology.

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The Politics of Presidential Agendas

Political Research Quarterly

Vol. 58, No. 2 (Jun., 2005)

, pp. 257-268 (12 pages)

Published By: Sage Publications, Inc.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3595627

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Past research holds that if presidents are to increase their success in Congress, they must set the policy agenda in their favor. But what determines the propensity of presidents to propose or support different policies? Because presidents influence the agenda-setting stage of the policy process, presidents develop their yearly domestic policy agendas in anticipation of each policy's success or failure in Congress. After all, presidents want to emphasize their strengths to achieve their goal of policy enactment in Congress. From this assumption, I devise a typology of long-term and important presidential policies, and argue that political limitations and fiscal constraints influence the president's yearly domestic policy agenda. I show that presidents offer different types of policies as part of their yearly domestic agendas given Congressional makeup and the federal budget deficit.

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Political Research Quarterly (PRQ) is a refereed scholarly journal publishing original research in all areas of political science. PRQ is published by the University of Utah and is the official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Most issues also feature field essays integrating and summarizing current knowledge in particular research areas. PRQ is published in March, June, September, and December.

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What is a policy agenda?

Terms in this set (11) policy agenda A set of issues and problems that leaders consider important. The mass media play an important role in influencing the issues which receive public attention. Policymaking System The process by which policy comes into being and evolves over time.

What create political issues for government policymakers?

People's interests, problems, and concerns create political issues for government policymakers. These issues shape policy, which in turn impacts people, generating more interests, problems, and concerns. Democracy A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

What is public policy?

All the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue Public Policy A choice that government makes in response to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some problem.

What is the government charged with taking action on political issues?

The branches of government charged with taking action on political issues. The U.S. Constitution established three policymaking institutions-the congress, the presidency, and the courts. Today, the power of the bureaucracy is so great

Which of the following May the president do to control the implementation of a policy agenda quizlet?

The president can use the State of the Union to set their policy agenda and recommend policies to members of Congress. The bureaucracy writes and enforces regulations - they can issue fines for violations.

How can a president implement a policy agenda quizlet?

Presidents use powers and perform functions of the office to accomplish a policy agenda. Formal and informal powers of the president include: Vetoes and pocket vetoes - formal powers that enable the president to check Congress.

How does the president use his constitutional power to implement his policy?

The Constitution explicitly assigns the president the power to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces, ask for the written opinion of their Cabinet, convene or adjourn Congress, grant reprieves and pardons, and receive ambassadors.

Can the president implement policies?

The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet.