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National Portrait Gallery. Daily looknat the Obama Presidency. Contemplating Obama's Place in History, Statistically. With President Obama’s second term under way, we have begun to see more reflections on how he might come to be regarded historically.

Contemplating Obama's Place in History, Statistically

As common sense might dictate — and as the statistics will also reveal — it is far too soon to conclude very much about this. Second-term presidents may be derided as lame ducks, but it is often in the second term when reputations are won or lost. Still, we can say this much: Mr. Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. In political science, historical rankings of Presidents of the United States are surveys conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States.

Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States

Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The rankings focus on the presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults.[1][2][3] General findings[edit] Second-term curse. The term second-term curse refers to the perceived tendency of second terms of recent U.S. presidents to be less successful than their first terms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to the "curse", the second terms of recent presidents have usually been plagued by a major scandal, policy inertia, some sort of catastrophe, or other problems. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Whether this perceived tendency is real is a subject of dispute: for example, political statistician Nate Silver , after analyzing presidential approval ratings for Harry S.

Second-term curse

Truman through Barack Obama , did find that approval ratings were lower on average during second terms, but he also found a variety of other reasons to explain those ratings, and he concluded that that "the idea of the second-term curse is sloppy as an analytical concept. " [ 6 ] Presidents of the curse [ edit ] Article Two of the United States Constitution. The Presidency and the Cold War. Different categories of powers. Constitutional powers of the president. (2003).

Different categories of powers

In M. Nelson (Ed.), The Presidency A to Z. Washington: CQ Press. Retrieved August 19, 2005, from CQ Electronic Library, CQ Encyclopedia of American Government. Powers of the President of the United States. The President of the United States has numerous powers, including those explicitly granted by Article II of the Constitution, implied powers, powers granted by Acts of Congress, and enormous influence and soft power from his position as leader of the United States.

Powers of the President of the United States

The Constitution explicitly assigns to the President the power to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces, ask for the written opinion of his Cabinet, convene or adjourn Congress, grant reprieves and pardons, and receive ambassadors. Executive Orders (selected presidents) Executive Agreements v treaties. Power of the President. The Limits of Presidential Power. The Limits of Presidential Power: All The President’s PowerThe Daily Reckoning Special Position PaperBy Thomas E.

The Limits of Presidential Power

Wood Jr. Vice President Dick Cheney recently told the Washington Post that when the Bush administration entered office, it was determined to reinvigorate the presidency and reverse the steady reduction in executive power and prerogative that had persisted since Watergate. But what reduction could the vice president have had in mind? “The vice president,” noted Sen. John E. Powers, limitations, and support for PM. Govt defeats in H/C (1945–present) Govt defeats in the H/L. Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. The Times constructed a poll for the first time of all British Prime Ministers in the lead up to the 2010 general election.

Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Prior to this there were two polls in 1999 and 2000 which were done by BBC Radio 4 and the British Politics Group; both only consulted a relatively small number of experts. A wider reaching poll was conducted in 2004 by the University of Leeds and Ipsos MORI. All rankings involved only prime ministers from the 20th and 21st centuries, with no coverage for the other 31 pre-20th-century Prime Ministers. 2010 University of Leeds survey of post war PMs[edit] Clement Attlee is highly rated for his post-war leadership and social reforms. In 2010, the University of Leeds and Woodnewton Associates carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics and/or British history since 1945.[1][2] Mori/University of Leeds survey[edit] The five Labour Prime Ministers were, on average, judged to have been the most successful, with a mean of 6.0 (median of 5.9). The Yes (Prime) Minister Files - Introduction.

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is a British comedy series about the wheeling and dealing of political life.

The Yes (Prime) Minister Files - Introduction

Although the series is set within the British political scene, it deals with political games and clashes between politicians and the civil service that could be found almost everywhere in the world. The Yes Minister (YM) series started airing in 1980 on BBC 2. It consisted of three series, each with seven episodes. Each episode is about 30 minutes long.