In a strong mayor-council form of local government,
A) the mayor has substantial formal power over the executive agencies of government and in dealings with an elected city council.
B) the mayor is a figurehead and must share administrative power with the council and other elected officials.
C) the council hires a professional who runs the city government and has the power to hire and fire city officials.
D) a board makes policy as a city council and also runs the city departments as administrator.
E) the mayor must have held some type of a city position previously.
A
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One measure for gauging the inequality within a country is
A) adjustment weights. B) the Gini coefficient. C) the gross domestic product per capita. D) the import substitution factor. E) purchasing power parity.
Darley and Batson conducted a study in which the independent variable was the degree to which the participants were instructed to hurry to the other building (high-hurry, intermediate-hurry, low-hurry) and the dependent variable was the amount of
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a. The Senate b. People's Plebiscite c. Electoral College d. direct popular election