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PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN usfp

PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN usfp. Some initial questions: What role do you think the president should play in USFP? The Founders weren ’ t making a Swiss watch … so why do we expect the presidency to run like one? Why has presidential power expanded over time?

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PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN usfp

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  1. PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN usfp Some initial questions: • What role do you think the president should play in USFP? • The Founders weren’t making a Swiss watch…so why do we expect the presidency to run like one? • Why has presidential power expanded over time? • Why do we give presidents so much more autonomy in foreign affairs than we do in domestic ones? What are the advantages and problems with this?

  2. What constitutionalfp powers does a president have? • Chief executive: What are the key depts. & agencies? (Economics, defense, homeland security) • Chief diplomat: Deploys Ambassadors and recognizes those of other states • Chief negotiator: Does it matter that treat power is shared? Can the president break treaties? What are executive orders and why are they so prevalent? • Commander in chief: What war powers does the president have? Is the War Powers Act legal? Why don’t we have to declare war anymore? • Why has Congress given so much of it’s Constitutional power away? Why have courts allowed this? • Four types of Cong/pres relations: delegation, deference, acquiescence, and resistance • Why doesn’t the 10th Amend. apply to FP?

  3. IT IS CLEAR THAT PRESIDENTS NOW HAVE MORE POWER THAN THE CONSTITUTION GIVES: • “In the areas of defense and foreign affairs, the nation must speak with one voice, and only the president is capable of providing that voice.” Ronald Regan 1984 • “I would welcome the support of the Congress (as I invade Haiti), and I would hope that I have that. Like my predecessors, I have not agreed that I was constitutionally mandated to get it.” Bill Clinton, 1994

  4. HOW HAS THE INSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENCY CHANGED OVER TIME WITH RESPECT TO usfp? • How have changes in electoral and communication practices impacted the institutional power of the presidency? • How has the increased role of the people in selecting presidents impacted role & legitimacy of presidents? • How has the evolution of political parties and the presidents’ place within the party changed USFP? • How has television and communication revolutions altered the institutional aspects of the presidency in USFP? • How have changes in budgeting, the role of the OMB, and critical informational advantages impacted USFP? • How have the World Bank, UN, & IMF impacted presidential power in FP?

  5. WHY PRESIDENTS DO WHAT THEY DO IN USFP? • Is there a link between a president’s success in USFP and securing his domestic policy priorities? Some recent presidents as examples • Does personality matter? Barber’s Typology: Active/Passive—Positive/Negative • Presidential time & critical junctures: The end of the CW and 9/11: Two defining moments for the Bushes • Interpersonal skills: Political capital and management skills • Does it matter how presidents talk to us and to foreign audiences? Variations in the use of the rhetorical presidency

  6. IF PRESIDENTS ARE SO DIFFERENT, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH CONTINUITY IN USFP? • The nature of the imperial presidency and pressures to expand the power of the institution • Honoring previous US commitments to make threats and promises work • The nature of organizing resources and budgeting • Time constraints & SOPs • Herding cats: The bureaucracy & the limits of schedule C hires • The Bureaucracy: Iron triangles and policy subsystems

  7. HAS THE WAR ON TERRORISM FINALLY GIVEN PRESIDENTS TOO MUCH USFP POWER? Michael Barone: The story on Bush is an old one • Presidents have rarely seen declaring war as necessary • Presidents have taken us into big and little wars completely unprepared • The Gulf War was the exception: The Powell Doctrine, Bush 1’s worldview on the Congress and multilateralism, & the nature of the enemy and terrain Owens and Hug: The GWOT=s an imperial presidency • My view: Too early to judge if we have a new “equlibrium”; Bush’s unique leadership style • The “unitary” or “unilateral” presidency claim: Congress can only work though the presidency, not the bureaucracy • The perpetual & unique nature of the GWOT • The creation of a homeland unilateral security doctrine • Unilateral preventative war powers is a far reaching claim • Congress and courts have accepted new Executive privacy claims

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