The second branch established in the constitutions of Texas and the United States is the executive. Its purpose is to execute the laws. This involves two related institutions. One is the chief executive, which is an elected office. Its occupant oversees the enforcement of law in accordance with the preferences of the forces that elected him. He does so with an advising staff that will leave with him or her when their term of office is over.
The other is the bureaucracy, which is composed of the people employed to actually implement the laws That is, actually do the work, like building roads, teaching schools, and enforcing the law. Many - myself included - are called street level bureaucrat because we do the face to face implementation of the law. In my case that means determining whether you qualify for government credit. People in the bureaucracy generally make it their career and work until retirement. Consequently they work under different chief executives and often have to respond to shifts in political control.
For now, we will focus on the following:
1 - Constitutional Design.
2 - Unitary vs. Plural Executive
3 - Expressed Powers
4 - Elections
5 - Delegated Powers and the Growth of the Executive Branch.
6 - Presidential Advising.
7 - Nominations to the Federal Courts.
8 - The Civil Service / Bureaucracy
Terminology
- president
- the executive power
- expressed powers
- delegated powers
- inherent powers
- military power
- commander - in - chief
- domestic defense
- judicial power
- reprieves, pardons, amnesties
- judicial appointments
- diplomatic power
- treaty making
- executive agreement
- chief executive
- executive privilege
- legislative power
- veto, override, pocket veto
- delegated powers
- War Powers Resolution
- legislative initiative
- executive orders
- legislative epoch
- the New Deal
- the modern presidency
- the cabinet
- National Security Council
- White House Staff
- Executive Office of the President
- unified and divided government
- going public
- the administrative state
- appointments
- regulatory review
- signing statements
- freedom of information act
- bureaucracy
- civil service
- administrative state
- implementation
- rule making
- administrative adjudication
- cabinets
- independent agencies
- government corporations
- independent regulatory commissions
- organizational charts
- clientele agencies
- agencies for the maintenance of the union
- revenue
- internal security
- external security
- regulatory agencies
- administrative legislation
- redistributive agencies
- fiscal policy
- monetary policy
- Federal Reserve System
- welfare agencies
- principle agent
- bureaucratic drift problem
- coalitional drift
- manager in chief
- congressional oversight
- public hearings
- appropriations
- federal workforce
- civil service examination
- termination
- deregulation
- devolution
- privatization
- agenda setting
- budget execution
- clemency
- executive orders
- impeachment
- inaugural speech
- informal powers
- line item veto
- pardons
- political succession
- proclamations
- state of the state address
- term limits
- veto
- bureaucracy
- enforcement
- hybrid agencies
- implementation
- licensing
- multimember agencies
- pay as you go system
- presiding officer
- regulations
- rules
- 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
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
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Lecture Topics
What is executive power?
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.
- 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.
- 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 Reorm Act.
- Federal Civilian Employment.
- Reorganization Act of 1939.
- 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.
- licensing
- multimember agencies
- pay as you go system
- presiding officer
- regulations
- rules
- 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
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
__________
Lecture Topics
What is executive power?
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.
- 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.
- 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 Reorm Act.
- Federal Civilian Employment.
- Reorganization Act of 1939.
- 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.
