Exam 27: Local Governments and Metropolitics

The largest jurisdiction within a state is a county.

Some larger suburban areas have begun to resemble city governments.

___________ are a way to generate revenue from those who work in cities but don't live in them.

A franchise is to a city what a constitution is to a national or state government.

The most common solution to the problems of overlapping and duplicating jurisdictions is for the units of government to contract for __________.

The main job of the mayor is ceremonial in the strictest sense of the term.

The ideal of ________ has not proved helpful to cities in the northeast and midwest because these cities are ringed by entrenched suburban communities that seldom want to participate, and state laws make it difficult for the central city to do so against the wishes of the suburbs.

Which of the following is NOT one of the traditional functions of counties in the United States?

The best example of American direct democracy can be found in

Which of the following presidential candidates had NOT previously served as a mayor before running in a presidential election?

Under the_______________, the federal government forbade cities with a history of discrimination to adopt measures that would dilute the voting strength of minorities.

The most common type of city charter is the

In what year was the first African American elected as a mayor of a large city?

Harold Washington was the first African American elected mayor of a large city.

____________ is a constitutional arrangement in which power is concentrated in a central government.

The typical responsibility of a mayor does NOT include

There are more than 37,000 ________ in the United States.

Today most people live in metropolitan areas, which include large cities and their suburbs, rather than in the small towns so beloved in fact and fiction.

One solution that some metropolitan mayors have employed in order to address shrinking revenue sources is

In the weak mayor-council form of government, mayors are often chosen