PS 202: Government and Political Institutions – Exam
Structure: Legislative (city, town, and county council members, county commissioners) body,
Executive (mayors, city managers)
Responsibilities: Legislative (makes local law, makes policy decisions) body, Executive (vetos???
idk) - answers✔✔City council
through elected officials, it administers and enforces state laws, collects taxes, assesses
property, records public documents, conducts elections, issues licenses; through appointed
boards and officials, it provides parks, libraries, sewers, emergency management, public
assistance, and hospitals. As required by state law, county government also serves
unincorporated areas by providing such purely local government facilities and services as
highways, police protection, building inspection, planning and zoning. - answers✔✔Counties
consists of an executive branch, a mayor elected by voters, and a unicameral (single chamber)
council as the legislative branch. - answers✔✔Mayor-council
small group of people elected to make laws for a city and run city government; each person on
it is also the head of a local department - answers✔✔City commission
a form of city government in which the city council hires a professional city manager to manage
city affairs and prepare the budget; the mayor is mostly a figure-head - answers✔✔Council
manager
provides basic structure for local gov'ts, provides funds through grants, - answers✔✔Fed gov't
relationship with local gov't
, government units created to perform particular functions, especially when those functions are
best performed across jurisdictional boundaries (school districts, water distribution, etc) -
answers✔✔Special districts
power is spread throughout all groups of society - answers✔✔Pluralism
power is only in small group of society, including gov't - answers✔✔Elitism
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. - answers✔✔Annexation
process by which a new democracy matures, in a way that means it is unlikely to revert to
authoritarianism without an external shock. - answers✔✔Consolidation
A process that extended the protections of the Bill of Rights against the actions of state and
local governments - answers✔✔Incorporation
power delegated by the state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs -
answers✔✔Home rule
a court ruling that local governments do not have any inherent sovereignty but instead must be
authorized by state government - answers✔✔Dillon's Rule
Legal document establishing a town as a local governing body - answers✔✔City charters
a regional planning board composed of local elected officials and some private citizens from the
same area - answers✔✔Council of Government (COG)
Structure: Legislative (city, town, and county council members, county commissioners) body,
Executive (mayors, city managers)
Responsibilities: Legislative (makes local law, makes policy decisions) body, Executive (vetos???
idk) - answers✔✔City council
through elected officials, it administers and enforces state laws, collects taxes, assesses
property, records public documents, conducts elections, issues licenses; through appointed
boards and officials, it provides parks, libraries, sewers, emergency management, public
assistance, and hospitals. As required by state law, county government also serves
unincorporated areas by providing such purely local government facilities and services as
highways, police protection, building inspection, planning and zoning. - answers✔✔Counties
consists of an executive branch, a mayor elected by voters, and a unicameral (single chamber)
council as the legislative branch. - answers✔✔Mayor-council
small group of people elected to make laws for a city and run city government; each person on
it is also the head of a local department - answers✔✔City commission
a form of city government in which the city council hires a professional city manager to manage
city affairs and prepare the budget; the mayor is mostly a figure-head - answers✔✔Council
manager
provides basic structure for local gov'ts, provides funds through grants, - answers✔✔Fed gov't
relationship with local gov't
, government units created to perform particular functions, especially when those functions are
best performed across jurisdictional boundaries (school districts, water distribution, etc) -
answers✔✔Special districts
power is spread throughout all groups of society - answers✔✔Pluralism
power is only in small group of society, including gov't - answers✔✔Elitism
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. - answers✔✔Annexation
process by which a new democracy matures, in a way that means it is unlikely to revert to
authoritarianism without an external shock. - answers✔✔Consolidation
A process that extended the protections of the Bill of Rights against the actions of state and
local governments - answers✔✔Incorporation
power delegated by the state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs -
answers✔✔Home rule
a court ruling that local governments do not have any inherent sovereignty but instead must be
authorized by state government - answers✔✔Dillon's Rule
Legal document establishing a town as a local governing body - answers✔✔City charters
a regional planning board composed of local elected officials and some private citizens from the
same area - answers✔✔Council of Government (COG)
