The degree of flexibility in education that states can give to localities depends greatly on scale.

In ward or district elections, the advantage of organizing these elections on the basis of geography is that ______.

Increases in salaries and staff sizes by legislators are viewed by the public as ______.

One of the paradoxes of local government is that, although it is the level of government that citizens support the most, it is also the level of government in which they participate the least.

In recent years, integrated family courts have worked to serve the needs of families by adopting what policy?

Dillon’s Rule is built on the legal principle of ______, which means “outside one’s powers.”

The most ubiquitous form of ______ is a legislator’s intervening with administrative agencies on behalf of constituents or constituent groups in ways that are episodic and punitive.

Typically, professional legislatures are more effective at ______ than nonprofessional legislatures.

U.S. Senate elections are ______ following national trends than are gubernatorial elections.

One of the concerns with using private-section management trends for running bureaucracies is that they ______.