Exam 10: State Local Relations

Unfunded mandates were once a source of friction between the states and their local governments, but states now pay most of the costs associated with mandated policies that affect local governments.

Regional government can be destructive to the hard-won political gains of minorities.

City-county consolidations were once thought to be the wave of the future, but to date there are only _____ cities and counties that have consolidated.

Measures that require states either to pay local governments for the costs of state mandates or to give local governments adequate revenue-raising capacity to pay for them are known as

The most relentless population decline is occurring in the rural areas of which part of the United States?

Impact fees are BEST described as

Nebraska developed its EDGE program ("Enhancing, Developing and Growing Entrepreneurs) in an effort to

In the United States, the closest thing to a regional government is

The majority of land use decisions occur at the local level.