In the council-manager form of city government, what is the city manager responsible for? quizlet

Which of the following is a system in which voters elect both a mayor and a city council?

1. Council-vote system
2. Council-manager system
3. Mayor-vote system
4. Mayor-council system

Which of the following is not a cultural classification?
1.Progressivistic
2.Individualistic 3.Moralistic 4.Traditionalistic

Who oversees voter registration?

Which of the following is a state legislator who uses his or her own judgement in making legislative decisions?

1. Composite
2. Trustee
3. Moral
4. Delegate

The ability to veto legislation is a(n) _______power.

Which of the following is one of the governor’s formal powers? The power to change term limits The power to approve a budget The power to veto legislation The power to appoint cabinet members

The power to veto legislation

What powers not specifically detailed in the U.S. Constitution but inferred as necessary to achieve the objectives of the national government?

In accordance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, before a bill can be considered in Congress what is required by the Congressional Budget Office?

Information about the cost of a proposed government mandate that exceeds a specified threshold

Who is responsible for garbage disposal? Federal government Municipal governments County governments State governments

According to Dillon’s rules, state actions have supremacy over what?

Women account for what total percentage of state legislators?

With what region is the traditionalistic political culture associated?

The southern United States and Southwest

How can term limits in the state legislature be restricted?

1. State legislators decide their own terms when in office
2. A cap on lifetime service or the number of consecutive terms
3. Each new governors establishes new term limits
4. Citizens vote on the length of the terms

2. A cap on lifetime service or the number of consecutive terms

According to individualistic political culture, what is the motivation for engagement in politics?

1. Desire to maintain order
2. Personal interest
3. Civic obligation
4. Concern for the community

What is a lifetime ban?

1. Members are restricted from accepting federal funds for the duration of their public service.
2. Members are required to become a career politician, and they are banned from the private sector.
3. Members are not allowed to vote once elected to office.
4. Members can only serve once in the number of years allotted, and they may not run again.

4. Members can only serve once in the number of years allotted, and they may not run again.

Which level of government has the power to tax? State and local Federal, state, and local State Federal

Which of the following is an advantage of term limits?

1. Transitioning politicians provides more activity.
2. It encourages new ideas and perspectives in law-making.
3. Key issues are resolved more quickly.
4. Voter enthusiasm for new candidates increases.

2. It encourages new ideas and perspectives in law-making.

In which of the following is society more likely to favor tax breaks?

1. Individualistic
2. Pessimistic
3. Moralistic
4. Traditionalistic

Which of the following has the strictest term limits?

Which powers are specifically written into the Constitution?

What is Elazar’s theory?

1. Theory of state level variation in party representation
2. Theory of slate level variation in political culture
3. Theory of state level migration in subcultures
4. Theory of Electoral College mapping

2. Theory of slate level variation in political culture

How are America’s poor more likely to identify?

According to the council-manager system, the city council appoints a city manager to carry out what type of functions?

From Ballotpedia

Council-manager government is one of the five major types of municipal government found in cities and towns throughout the United States. The other four are mayor-council, commission, town meeting, and representative town meeting.

In a council-manager government, an elected city council serves as the city's primary legislative body and appoints a chief executive officer called a city manager to oversee day-to-day municipal operations, to draft a budget, and to implement and enforce the council's policy and legislative initiatives.

Most council-manager governments also feature a mayor, who may be elected at-large and who officially represents the city on the state, national, and international levels. However, unlike in a strong mayor-council government, the mayor is a regular voting member of city council with little or no legal privileges that may distinguish him or her from other council members.

Basic features

The city-manager, city council, and mayor work together to enact budgets, to draft and enforce legislation, to provide city services, and to oversee city departments and appoint departmental heads.[1][2][3]

City-manager

• Appointed and dismissed by city council.
• Responsible for drafting and proposing a city budget.
• Responsible for amending the city budget as dictated by city council.
• Responsible for appointing departmental heads and directors (sometimes with the approval of city council).
• Responsible for implementing and enforcing council policies and legislative initiatives.

City council

• Elected to two or four year terms either by district or at-large.
• Responsible for appointing a city-manager.
• Responsible for drafting and passing legislation and city ordinances.
• Responsible for approving the city budget proposed by the city-manager.

Mayor

• Generally elected at-large to two or four year terms.
• Votes at city-council meetings.
• Does not possess veto powers.
• Officially represents the city on the state, national, and international levels.

Hiring process

The city-manager is not an elected position. Rather, the holder of this office serves at the pleasure of the council, which retains the legal right to dismiss and replace the city-manager. The hiring process for a city-manager is comparable to that of a corporate CEO. It begins with general discussions amongst city council members, often in consultation with voters and professional consultants. After a hiring notice is drafted and distributed to professional organizations, the process then moves to a multistage interview process that includes a review of applications and onsite interviews with qualified candidates. The process ends with a vote taken by city council.[1]

History

The origins of council-manager government in the United States can be found in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Then, most cities utilized a weak mayor-council form of municipal government in which all executive, legislative, and administrative powers were invested in city councils. Though most of these governments also featured a mayor, the role was primarily a ceremonial one with duties that included ribbon-cutting events and presiding over official city events such as festivals and parades.[4]

In the late nineteenth century, cities began experimenting with other types of municipal government.[5] A political movement began that criticized inefficiencies in weak mayor-council governments and their failure to break the power of the political bosses and machines that influenced American politics. One development that emerged out of this movement was the strong mayor-council government, in which executive and administrative power was removed from city council and placed in the hands of an at-large elected mayor. Another development, however, was the council-manager government in which city councils were required to hire a professional administrator who would be responsible for municipal finances, the implementation and enforcement of law, and basic city administration.[5][6]

Trends

Council-manager government is a common form of municipal government, especially in cities with populations between 10,000 and 500,000 citizens. Based on data gathered by the International City/County Management Association, approximately 59 percent of cities in the United States utilized the council-manager system as of 2011 (see Figure 1).[3][7][8][9]

Political scientists and policy analysts have stated that the prevalence of the council-manager form of government was indicative of a trend toward professionalization in municipal administration, and that state laws and transparency and accountability organizations were the catalysts of this trend.[10]

See also

• Mayor-council government
• City commission
• Open town meeting
• Representative town meeting

External links

• National League of Cities
• International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 International City/Council Management Association, "Professional Local Government Management," accessed November 26, 2014
2. ↑ National League of Cities, "Forms of Municipal Government," accessed November 26, 2014
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 DeSantis, V.S. & Renner, T. "City Government Structures: An Attempt at Clarification," in State & Local Government Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring, 2002 (pages 96-97)
4. ↑ Kweit, R. & Kweit M.G. (1999) People and Politics in Urban America. London: Routledge (pages 181-185)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Goldfield, D. (2007) Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publicans, Inc. (pages 454-456)
6. ↑ Frederickson, G.H, Logan, B. & Wood, C., "Municipal Reform in Mayor-Council Cities: A Well Kept Secret," in State and Local Government Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter, 2003 (pages 7-9)
7. ↑ International City/County Management Association, "Municipal Form of Government Survey Summary 2011," accessed November 18, 2014
8. ↑ International City/County Management Association, "Municipal Form of Government Survey Summary 2006," accessed November 18, 2014
9. ↑ Moulder, E. "Municipal Form of Government: Trends in Structure, Responsibility, and Composition," in The Municipal Year Book 2008. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 2008 (pages 27-28)
10. ↑ Frederickson, G.H, Logan, B. & Wood, C., "Municipal Reform in Mayor-Council Cities: A Well Kept Secret," in State and Local Government Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter, 2003 (pages 10-12)

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