POLI SCI 104 Lecture 12: Poli Sci 104 week 7, 2
7 Jan 2019
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Trump instructed all cabinet secretaries to prepare bugger requests that include a 5% cut (this will turn out to be somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible). Wh taft: the president may only do what the constitution explicitly authorizes. Theodore roosevelt (and successors): whatever the constitution does not prohibit, the president may do. All presidents have incentive to push this envelope. Expansion of government power (don"t need president when government doesn"t do much: 1880, 1933. Public side of presidency: the bully pulpit. Creation of institutional presidency: white house staff, executive office of the president (1939) Fdr/new deal changes everything: activist presidency, increased public expectations, huge expansion of government capacity, congressional delegation of power. Rise of institutional presidency: executive office of the president (1939, the president needs help, presidential staff= capacity to control. Because that is how presidents (beginning with fdr, although there were earlier developments) exercise administrative control over what the federal government does.
