Reflect and Respond in 500 words.
- Consider more closely differences between the House and Senate.
- Discuss how the relative sizes of the House and the Senate affect each institutions membership, structure, and processes.
- How does the fact that the House has more than four times the membership of the Senate affect its ability to work?
- How might this explain the existence of stronger party and committee organization in the House?
- What do these differences mean for the current president given the partisan make-up of Congress?
- Presidents exercise leadership in the context of limitations on presidential authority. Perhaps Americans expect too much from their presidents. The myth of the powerhouse President distorts the public’s image of presidential reality. Presidents operate in an environment filled with checks and balances and competing centers of power. Other policy makers with whom they deal have their own agendas, their own interests, and their own sources of power. To be effective, the president must have highly developed political skills to mobilize influence, manage conflict, negotiate, and build compromises.
- Discuss and evaluate whether you think the president has too little power? Or maybe, too much?
Reflect and Respond in 500 words
- Bureaus, departments, and agencies rarely get terminated. They seem to last even if the conditions that led to their creation no longer exist.
- What might explain the seeming immortality of agencies and departments?
- How do the goals of bureaucrats as well as those of the politicians who seek to control them contribute to this phenomenon?
- Why does the bureaucracy continue to grow even though the public dislikes it so much?
- Many scholars argue that a proper role for the judiciary is the protection of minorities (remember – “minorities” are any subgroup of people within the general population – whether they are the elite rich, an ethnic or religious minority, gun owners, or LGBT….etc.). They argue that the other elected branches of government must necessarily guard majority interests.
- Do courts protect minorities? Should they?
- What is the nature of the claims of those minorities as they seek judicial protection and redress?
- How do courts differ from other political institutions in this regard?
- In what ways might we think of courts as protecting minority factions from majority factions?
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