POLS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hierarchical Routing, Santa Barbara City College, Unitary Executive Theory
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Unitary executive theory (execution) of federal law. cass sunstein. What it means: the president"s hierarchical control over implementation. We have a unitary executive: the debate is how strongly or how weak it is in a. President bush and his advisors pushed this theory explicitly. America does not stand still and neither will i. Bush, but eventually embraced the idea unitary sense can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, that"s what i"m going to do. president obama (2014 state of the. Rutherford b. hayes was the first president to have a telephone. George hw bush survived 4 plan crashes in wwii. Paul light argues that presidents choose issues to pursue based on three goals: Reelection agendas often formed around issues thought to be popular rather than based on serious analysis. Good policy: must at least consider the costs and benefits to the whole society as opposed to smaller segments of society.