The Executive Branch.
- The Elected Offices
- The Bureaucracy
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What is executive power?
- Presidency
- - unitary executive.
- Texas Governor, etc. . .
- - Texas plural executive.
Bureaucracy.
U.S. Constitution
- Article 2: Avalon.
- Article 2: Annotated.
Texas Constitution
- Article 4: 1876.
- Article 4: Current.
- Government Code.
- Local Government Code.
City of Pearland
- Government.
- Wikipedia.
- Executive agencies established in law by the First Congress.
- Washington's First State of the Union Address.
- Indians Wars 1790.
- Alexander Hamilton's three reports to Congress.
- Washington's First Veto.
- Washington's Resignation.
- Historical rankings of presidents of the United States.
- Development of the executive branch
- Current executive departments.
- Current independent executive agencies.
- Checks and Balances.
- - Veto
- Immunities
- - Executive Privilege.
- Commander in Chief: Inherent Powers.
- Chief Executive Officer: Executive Orders.
Terminology
GOVT 2305: WTP - Chapter Eleven: The Presidency
- Expressed powers
- Delegated powers
- Inherent powers
- Executive agreements
- Executive privilege
- Unitary Executive Theory
- Imperial Presidency
- Commander in Chief
- Top Diplomat
- First Legislator
- Veto power
- Override
- Signing statements
- Chief bureaucrat
- political appointments
- Civil servants
- Executive orders
- Economist in Chief
- The Head of State
- Party Leader
- The Bully Pulpit
- Going Public
- Presidential approval
- Rating the presidents
- Vice President
- The Cabinet
- Executive Office of the President
- Central clearance
- Office of Management and Budget
- Chief of Staff
GOVT 2306: LSP - Chapter 4: Texas Governors
executive power
governor
constitutional qualifications
Texas Constitution - Article 4
bureaucracy / civil service
local executive
weak executive / plural executive
strong executive / unitary executive
emergency powers
agenda setting
state of the state address
emergency legislation
special sessions
term lengths / no terms limits
succession
checks and balances
governors' legislative powers
budget power
line-item veto
post adjournment veto
governors' appointive powers
patronage
campaign donations
agency capture
appointed regulatory commission
staggered terms
recess appointments
removal power
executive order
senatorial courtesy
elected board
judicial and county vacancies
clemency, pardons, parole
Board of Pardons and Paroles
budget power
ceremonial duties
crisis manager
military roles
emergency legislation
executive order
impeachment
informal power
patronage
plural executive
political ambition ladder
popular mandate
post-adjournment veto
recess appointment
removal power
senatorial courtesy
special session
staggered terms
state of the state address
succession
veto power
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Fall 2022
- What is executive power?
- - presidency
- - bureaucracy
- Article 2: Avalon.
- Article 2: Annotated.
- Executive agencies established in law by the First Congress.
- Washington's First State of the Union Address.
- Indians Wars 1790.
- Alexander Hamilton's three reports to Congress.
- Washington's First Veto.
- Washington's Resignation.
- Historical rankings of presidents of the United States.
- Development of the executive branch
- Current executive departments.
- Current independent executive agencies.
- Checks and Balances.
- - Veto
- Immunities
- - Executive Privilege.
- Commander in Chief: Inherent Powers.
- Chief Executive Officer: Executive Orders.
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Fall 2022
- Unitary Executive Theory.
- Power of Appointment.
- Appointments Clause.
- Executive Orders.
- List of United States federal executive orders.
- Executive Privilege.
- Bureaucracy.
- Street Level Bureaucracy.
- Max Weber Bureaucracy Theory.
- Executive Departments and Agencies.
- Rulemaking.
- Civil Service.
- Spoils system.
- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
- Federal Civilian Employment.
- Reorganization Act of 1939.
The Bureaucracy
- The Executive Power.
- 1st United States Congress.
- Civil Service, Public Administration, Public Sector.
- Characteristics of a Bureaucracy.
- Four Theories of Governing Elites
- Bureaucratic Elites.
- Street Level Bureaucrats.
- United States Executive Departments
- - Other agencies
- Texas Executive Agencies
- Fiscal Size Up.
- Sunset Advisory Commission.
- Texas House Committees.
- Texas Senate Committees.
Terminology
GOVT 2305: WTP - Chapter Twelve: Bureaucracy
- bureaucracy
- spoils system
- universalistic politics
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- bureaucratic model
- - hierarchy
- - division of labor
- - fixed routine
- - equal rules
- - technical qualifications
- bureaucratic pathologies
- - rote
- - imperialism
- - lack of coordination
- - clientelism
- rule making
- proposed rule
- final rule
- implementation
- street level bureaucracy
- civil servants
- cabinet departments
- rotating top officials
- independent regulatory commissions
- regulatory capture
- Office of Personnel Management
- General Services Administration
- private contractors
- control of the bureaucracy
- - the people
- - the president
- - - overhead democracy
- - Congress
- - - funding
- - - oversight
- - - authorization
- - - reorganization
- - - principal agent theory
- - interest groups
- bureaucratic autonomy
- - whistleblowers
- Freedom of Information Act
GOVT 2306: LSP - Chapter 5: The Plural Executive and Bureaucracy in Texas
plural executive
midterm elections
Texas Constitution - Article 4
separate state wide elections
political ambition ladder
agriculture commissioner
attorney general
commissioner of the General Land Office
Permanent School Fund (PSF)
comptroller of public accounts
Biennial Budget Review
lieutenant governor
presiding office of the Texas Senate
secretary of state
governors appointment
chief elections officer in the state
bureaucracy
state agencies
boards and commissions
public policy
Texas Department of Transportation
Texas Health and Human Services
Railroad Commission
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
State Board of Education
elected board
Public Utility Commission of Texas
appointed regulatory commission
merit-based civil service system
patronage system
sunset review process
sunshine laws
