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Congress, The presidency, The bureaucracy - Coggle Diagram
Congress
Members of congress and their world
Backgrounds of national legislators
Tenture and career patterns
Daily life of a member of congress
Congressional pay and perquisites
Running the legislative obstacle course
Bill introduction and committee referral
Committee consideration and action
From committee to the floor
Resolving house-senate differences
Bicameralism in the American congress
Leadership in the U.S. senate
Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives
The committee system
Structure and organization
Getting assigned to a committee
Committee chairs
Committee rankings
House and senate differences
Responsibilities of the Congress
Primary Responsibilities
Lawmaking
Secondary Responsibilities
Impeachment
Seating and disciplining members
Selecting leaders for the executive branch
Other policy responsibilities
The concept of the U.S. Congress
The presidency
The president and congress
Messages and recommendations
The veto
Presidential success in congress
Electoral consitituencies
Party and ideology
Party polarization
Presidential popularity
Presidential bargaining skill
Unilateral powers
Executive orders
Signing statements
National security statements
The president and the presidency
The president as an individual
The presidency as an organization
Vice president
Cabinet
Executive Office of the president
First Lady
Organization of the presidency and the presidential effectiveness
The president's primary constitutional responsibilities
Chief Executive
Commander in Chief
Chief diplomat
The president as party leader
Limitations on the president as party leader
The president and party organization
The president and electoral activities
Presidential elections
Congressional elections
The president as public opinion leader
Going public
Personal trips
The press
Presidential speeches
The limited benefits of going public
Presidential approval ratings
The development of the presidency
A single executive
Broad constitutional provisions
Public acceptance of positive government
Congressional delegation of power
Contemporary expectations of the president
The concept of the U.S. presidency
The bureaucracy
The structure of American bureaucracies
The executive office of the president
Cabinet departments
Independent agencies
Regulatory agencies and commissions
Government corporations
Other bureaus
The politics of organization
The characteristics of bureaucracy
The merit system
The Weberian model of bureaucracy
Neutral competence
The bureaucrats
The power of bureaucracy
Rulemaking
Bureaucratic lobbying
Adjudication
Controlling the bureaucracy
Theories of bureaucratic behavior
Monitoring bureaucracy
Influencing bureaucracy
The congress and the bureaucracy
The president and the bureaucracy
Judiciary and the bureaucracy
Reforming bureaucracy
Business running government
Running government like a business
The concept of the bureaucracy