Bell Ringers
| Clip Of Intelligence Oversight, Part 2

Bell Ringer: Government Accountability

Description

University of Georgia Professor Loch Johnson on government accountability, including traditional schools of thought, and policing the bureaucracy.

5 minutes

Bell Ringer Assignment

  • Describe why some consider power and efficiency as the most important in making government work.
  • Explain the “Madisonian” model of government and how it contradicts the power model.
  • Why is accountability important in government in the Madisonian model? What are the two methods of review?
  • Explain the pattern of intelligence accountability today according to Professor Johnson using his analogy of “police patrolling” and “firefighting” behavior.

Participants

Vocabulary

  • Autocracy
  • Bureaucracy
  • Ex Post Facto
  • Federalist Papers
  • James Madison
  • Unitary

Topics

Bureaucracy & RegulationConstitutional Foundation

Grades

High SchoolUniversity