POSC 211 - Presidency & Executive Leadership

About the capacities, incentives, and constraints that characterize the presidency as an institution. Topics include: the founding and the constitutional powers of the office, the formal and informal powers of the office, and how presidential power has evolved over time; the extent to which the president represents and is accountable to voters; and presidential power in the context of other institutional actors such as Congress and the Judiciary. Throughout, students engage with the continued evolution of the office, and how past precedent relates to current practice. (AM)

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No Senior
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges
Core Component: None

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