What are the three basic forms of city government in Texas? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.
What will be an ideal response?
The strong mayor-council system; the weak mayor-council system; and the council-manager system. The strong mayor-council system centralizes power in the hands of the mayor, making leadership focused. However, this may lead to personality-driven politics and favoritism for certain areas of geographic support. The weak mayor-council system allows more power to be dispersed among all members of the city council, yet the mayor ends up being just another councilperson with no unique leadership power to focus on citywide issues. The council-manager system chooses members of the council through elections; thus, its members are chosen and motivated through political means, yet the city manager is a professional who is hired and fired based on merit and qualification.
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a. the biggest exporters, because they reach larger populations around the world with their products. b. the richest countries, because they can afford to invest in media as a tool of statecraft. c. democracies, because they are familiar with the free exchange of information. d. dictatorships, because they exercise direct control over the media industry. e. the most populous countries, because they have a bigger number of citizens as information consumers.
What is meant by the term battleground state?
A) The state is not reliably Democrat or Republican; either party has a chance of winning in the presidential election. B) Party politics are so strong in the state that nearly all efforts to move forward are met with huge battles. C) The state has a large military presence that influences election results. D) A state that splits its distribution of votes in the electoral college. E) Election results in such states are normally decided within the courts weeks after the election.
If a researcher was doing a study on the effect of TV violence on children's behavior and wanted to test out inferred causality from previous case-study research, he would
A) Use higher constraint research procedures. B) Use multiple case study research techniques. C) Take inferences at face value; no further research is necessary. D) Disregard previous case-study research.
County committees include all of the following EXCEPT ________
A. financial contributors B. executive committee C. local interest group leaders D. senators from the region