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Explain how executive power and legislative accountability helps address this requirement: Analyse and evaluate relationships between the presidency, cabinet, Executive Office of the President, federal bureaucracy and federal agencies and why they vary between presidents. Use AO1, AO2 and AO3 where the command word requires them.
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- Use a structural approach.
- AO1 identifies the formal institutions and constitutional rules governing executive power and legislative accountability.
- AO2 then compares the UK and USA: both systems allocate public power, whereas the UK constitution is uncodified and the US Constitution is codified with a stronger formal separation of powers.
- This difference matters because institutional checks and legal authority operate differently.
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A strong Politics answer uses accurate knowledge and explains that the UK and USA may share functions whereas their constitutional structures differ. One viewpoint must be tested against a competing viewpoint; however, the overall judgement must follow from political evidence and context.
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