Where did the commission form of government begin?
What is Galveston?
100
These are types of special districts.
What are education and non-education? Or what are ISDs, Community and Junior College and Non-education?
100
This is is an organization of individuals sharing common goals that attempts to influence governmental decisions.
What is an interest group?
100
This policy provides medical coverage for low-income people.
What is Medicaid?
100
After Reconstruction, most Texans identified with which party?
What is Democrat?
200
This is the lawmaking body of a city.
What is city council?
200
This administrative unit's job is to be the "long arm of the state" and to provide public services.
What is a county?
200
This is a benefit of using litigation.
What are it is less expensive and seems more “objective and nonpolitical”?
200
This is the service SNAP provides.
What is food stanps and the Lonestar Card?
200
All ________ are governed by a commissions court.
What are counties?
300
This is a unit of government formed to meet a special need. It usually extends past city or county boundaries.
What is a special district?
300
Under a weak-mayor plan, the mayor has equal power with this group of people.
What is the city council?
300
These are the three basic types of interest groups as discussed in class.
What are membership groups, non-membership groups and government organizations?
300
What are three things the TCEQ regulates?
What are water, air and ground pollution, as well as hazardous waste, drilling, fracking and alternative energy initiatives?
300
This man raised a successful army that defeated Santa Ana in San Jacinto. He later became a political figure in Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
400
This is a basic plan for a local government unit that defines its powers, responsibilities, and organization.
What is a charter?
400
Under the city-manager plan of government, this is how the city manager is chosen.
What is appointed by the city council?
400
This is the term for trying to get candidates sympathetic to your cause elected to office.
What is electioneering?
400
This policy states that 75 percent of road fees must be spent on road construction and maintenance and 25 percent must be spent on education.
What is the Good Roads Amendment?
400
Which branch of government interprets the law?
What is the judicial branch?
500
This is the power of a city of a population over 5000 to write its own charter and manage its own affairs.
What is home rule?
500
This is how many junior and community college special districts there are in Texas.
What is about 50?
500
This is the year the Lobby Regulation Act passed.
What is 1973?
500
What did the United States of America v. The State of Texas accomplish?
It mandated desegregation of state public schools in the Eastern District and gave the federal court authority to oversee implementation of the state public school desegregation plan.
500
The oldest and most common form of city government