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What type of political jurisdiction is created from the bottom up?
City
Counties in Louisiana are called which of the following?
Parishes
_________________ elections tend to have the lowest voter turnout.
Local
Approximately how many special districts are there in the United States?
More than 50,000
____________ tend to be more "general purpose" forms of government.
Cities
Legislative and executive powers are separated in a _____________ form of local government.
council-executive
An elected executive and an elected legislature are found in which of the following?
Mayor-council
Potential problems with the commission system of municipal government include which of the following?
Elected officials sometimes make for poor bureaucrats.
_________________ are a type of government created for a single purpose.
Special districts
What percentage of survey respondents said that the financial crisis of 2008-2009 affected local government operations?
Eighty percent
City councils tend to dominate in a ________________ system of government.
Weak-mayor
The _______________ system of government is an attempt to separate political and administrative functions.
council-manager
States and localities are in a ________________, with localities dependent on states for power.
Unitary
__________ elections are elections in which city or county voters vote for council or commission members.
At-large
States are, within themselves, _____________ systems.
Unitary