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Aspects of the U.S. Presidential System - JPB062
Title: Aspekty prezidentského systému USA
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Věra Kotábová
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Annotation -
Last update: KOTABOVA (29.09.2013)
The course is focused on the personality and office of the U.S. president. It analyses the relation of the president to the all branches of power, i.e. executive, legislative, and judicial powers, as well as the relation to the public and the media. Attention is paid to the mechanisms of domestic and foreign policy-making.
Aim of the course -
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The aim of the course is to reach understanding relationship between the structure of the executive power and other branches od government, the influence of president´s personality on power structure, and to analyze the political environmen in which president has to operate.

Literature -
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Readings:
Nelson, M. (ed), The Presidency and the Political System, CQ Press, Washington, 2003
Dvořáková, Vladimíra, Spojené státy americké. Společnost a politika. Libri, 2002, kap.
Janda, Kenneth, Výzva demokracie. Systém vlády v USA. Slon 1998, kap. 9 nebo
Wilson, James Q., Jak se vládne v USA. Victoria Publishing, Praha 1995, kap. 12.

Recommended Readings:
Barber, James David, The Presidential Character. Predicting Performance in the White House. Prentice Hall, 1992
Edwards, II. George C. a Wayne, Stephen J., Presidential Leadership. Politics and Policymaking. Thomson, Wadsworth, New York 2010
McDonald, Forrest, The American Presidency. An Intellectual History. UP of Kansas, 1994.
Neustadt, Richard, Presidential Power. Wiley, New York, 1980

Sources:
Listy Federalistů. Praha 1994.
Ústava Spojených států. Článek I, II, IV, VI, XII. Dodatek XV, XIX, XX, XXII-XXVI.
Understanding the Presidency. Čítanka, eds. Pfiffner, James P. a Davidson, Roger H. Longman, 1997.


Periodical:
Presidential Studies Quarterly. Center for the Study of the Presidency. New York.

Web Sources:
www.whitehouse.gov
www.politico.com
www.realclearpolitics.com

Teaching methods -
Last update: KOTABOVA (29.09.2013)

There will be a lecture and a seminar. Heuristics, analyses, and where possible, case studies will be applied.

Requirements to the exam -
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Regular attendance (min. 80%), homework (heuristics, annotation, analyses, commentaries), actual relevant events monitoring, final test.

Syllabus -
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I. Introduction. Methodology. President-centered or Presidency-centered? President as a "director of change" a president as a "facilitator of change".
II. The making of presidential office. The scope of article II of the U.S. Constitution.
III. How the president governs? Personal prerequisites for the office. Organization and style of work, relation with the aides and bureaucracy.
IV. President and the public.
V. President and the media.
VI. Prezident as the head of executive branch.
VII. President and the Congress.
VIII. President a the Judiciary.
IX. Domestic Policy-making..
X. Foreign Policy-making..
XI. Challenges of contemporary presidency.
XII. Final test.

Entry requirements - Czech
Last update: KOTABOVA (09.09.2015)

Zájem o problematiku, orientace v moderních dějinách USA, pracovní znalost angličtiny.

 
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