Key terms USA US presidency Domestic politics Issues within the USA that directly concern citizens eg health care gun control racial issues Electoral mandate An electoral mandate is the permission granted to a political leader ID: 615906
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Edexcel Politics A-level
Key terms
USA:
US presidencySlide2
Domestic politics
Issues within the USA that directly concern citizens, e.g. health care, gun control, racial issues.Slide3
Electoral mandate
An electoral mandate is the permission granted to a political leader or winning party to govern and act on their behalf, e.g. to
President Obama
in 2008 and 2012. The mandate is more or less in effect for as long as the government is in power.Slide4
Executive branch
The executive branch, headed by the president, is one of the three branches of government; the other two are the legislative
branch (headed
by Congress) and the judiciary (headed by the Supreme Court).Slide5
Executive orders
A direction to the federal bureaucracy on how the president would like a piece of legislation to
be implemented
.Slide6
Imperial presidency
A dominant presidency with ineffective checks and balances from the other branches.Slide7
Imperilled presidency
This is the contrasting theory to that of an imperial presidency - it is claimed that the president does not
have enough
power to be effective. Slide8
Informal powers
Powers of the president not listed in the Constitution but taken anyway.Slide9
Powers of persuasion
This is an informal power of the president in which they can use
the prestige
of their job, and other bargaining methods in order to get people to do as they wish.Slide10
Unified government
Where both Houses of Congress and the presidency are controlled by people from the same political party.Slide11
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