House:  bill, sub/full committee, rules committee, floor hearing, conference committee, House/Senate vote, President signs (or not).

Senate:  bill, sub/full committee, floor hearing, conference committee, Senate/House vote, President signs (or not).

- Establishes federal Civil Service

            - Eliminates patronage:  Job given for political reasons

            - Establishes merit principle:  Entrance exams and promotion ratings to find people with talent and skill. Pretty hard jobs to get.

- prevents civil servants from engaging in partisan politics while on duty

            - passed because part of whole “Red Scare”, scared of Russians. didn’t want people to talk about overthrowing the government.. later extended to keep people in civil service job from campaigning

- Career bureaucrats are hired based on merit

- Generally considered implementation success

            - clear, concise goal

            - Those carrying out the law had obvious authority and vigor to do so

                        - Most laws are not implemented easily or even successfully

- some states still had poll taxes, literacy polls, one was in Chinese (how could you vote if you can’t read that)

- one of the rare exceptions where things went smoothly.

- Lists the top jobs available for presidential appointment

            - Presidents work to find capable people to fill the positions

                        - Several-hundred page application with extensive background checks

                        - Presidents want to avoid embarrassment

            - Some jobs (ambassadorships) are patronage

                        - well-connected, kinda like spoils system

            - Turnover is high

                        - new president would usually change the people

            - Political appointees not held to merit principle

- translating goals and objectives of a policy into an operating, ongoing program

            - Taking a law and making it (or trying to make it) work

- includes:

            - Creating or assigning an agency for the policy

            - Coordinating resources to achieve goals

            - Translating goals into bureaucratic guidelines

- very hard difficulties

take a policy primarily from government and take it down to states. Ex.:  prison systems started increasingly controlled by states; privatization

descriptive: 

like on race. important cuz if they looks like you, you think they’re listening to you and u have more confidence and more likely to get involved. highest turnout of women one time because there was a women candidate. how they make you feel.

subsitive:  you both want the same thing

representative who sees themselves as this thinks that these people have elected me, believe I have the wisdom to hold this job, so I’ll act on what I think is their best interest, and they’re gonna have to believe in me. they might think they know better.

believed that the more you could find out about an        individual’s personality, the more likely you could predict whether he/she was a good president.

Presidential character types: passive/active positive/negative

Personality, character.

defines what a good President is. changed evaluation you       could empirically measure. a good president is one who successfully passes legislation on the promises made when he ran for office. time, priorities, expertise, optimism.

Use of resources.

warns that sometimes you can go to public too many times.     public attention can wane. fine line.

talked about how to reach people

going public