Notes from Wednesday 9th, 2008

*artisan Roles of the President
- Chief Initiator of party's legislative agenda
- Informally selects the national committee chair
(Nation CC is which part of party? Party Organization)
- White House liasons often direct National Committee activites
( 3 parts of party organization - Local, state, national)
{Relationship between local and state organization? not coopertive, decentralized}
(What is the size of teh white house staff? The President Staff?)
- Chief Fund raiser for the party

Limit on the President as Party leader:
- Varied constituencies
a. Party
b. Bureacratic leaders
c. Congress
d. World Community
e. Public


Party and the Bureacracy
"Partonage is still alive"

- Sub- governments and the "revolving door"
( Subgovernment- 3 parts .... 1. Interest groups, 2. Bureacrats, 3. Legislative....
How policy is made "Iron triangle)
-Turnover of bureacratic personal with new executive and majority party in Congress
- Nearly 100% of promotion same partisan (81 % in the nixon years)
- The Role of the White House Personnel office.