Question to be answered by Matt S, Courtney T, Erica W, and Matt B. What are the formal powers that governors have and how does the
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The governor has two different types of powers that are associated with his carrying out of duties. He has both informal and formal powers. The formal powers the governor possesses are what is granted to him through the state constitution and different state statutes. The power of the veto and budget-making are types of the formal powers he has and uses. As compared to other governors from around the states, the South Carolina governor rates as having “moderate” amounts of formal powers. Through the past twenty years and changes in the constitution, the governor is slowly gaining more formal power.
Matt Spivey
The formal powers that the Governor’s have are veto power, control over the budget, and appointment powers. In comparison to other states, South Carolina formal powers are much more limited than other states. Compared to Georgia, SC is limited. The Governor has much power of many different fascists. The Governor of Georgia has extremely much more power than SC. Perhaps SC Governors should have more responsibility and authority.
Erica Wilson Armour
Both Matt S and Erica had part of it right, but left things out. Formal powers include four kinds of powers: tenure, appointment, budget, and veto powers.
In the tenure area the governor is rated by the text as strong because of the ability to run for a second term (for a total of 8 years). I would not rate it quite that strong because of the two term limit – in some states like Illinois a governor can run for unlimited terms. But certainly two terms is a lot more than one term!
Under appointment, the powers are definitely weak because of all the other separately elected constitutional officers as well as boards and commissions that are not part of the cabinet departments where he has to share appointment powers and has no power to fire heads. Later we will look at an organizational chart to see what all of these are.
We have already looked at budget making power, and though the governor now submits an executive budget today, he still only has one vote in the BCB. I agree with my old professor from Chapel Hill, Thad Beyle, who rates the S.C. governor as weak here rather than as moderate as the chart on p 230 shows.
In the area of vetoes, the governor certainly has potential power, but his ability to use it effectively depends more on his informal powers than formal powers. Currently the legislature has shown no hesitancy to override gubernatorial vetoes on the budget and budget related matters. Just this past week the legislature easily ran over two of Governor Sanford’s vetoes: the veto of the requirement that health insurance plans cover autism (Sanford complained that this would increase costs of the state employees health insurance, and the veto of the plan to buy new school buses (we have the oldest fleet in the nation).
The formal powers that a governor has are those powers authorized by by state statutes and the constitution. These include tenure, budget-making power, veto, and appointment powers. South Carolina's governor has a moderate amount of formal powers. Recently the governor has gained more powers due to changes in the constitution. Our governor is weakend more because he shares a wide range of state fiscal and administrative functions with the state budget and control board. This board manages functions for all state agencies.
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