There are several books that cover important information to validate the fact that LOCAL government IS the level of government that has a MUCH GREATER impact on the daily lives of Americans than any other level of government and ironically it is the level of government that gets the least attention from the public and from the media. Participation in local government affords citizens the most control over their own lives but unfortunately it is the level of government with the least voter turnout. Sad but true. Answer the following question: Do you favor a small state government that provides relatively modest services to its people but holds down taxes or a larger state government that provides more services but costs more to taxpayers?

In a congressional district somewhere in the U.S., a new representative is being elected. The voters all have one-dimensional political views that can be neatly arrayed on a left-right spectrum. We can define the ”location” of a citizen’s political views in the following way. The citizen with the most extreme left-wing views is said to be at point 0 and the citizen with the most extreme right-wing views is said to be at point 1. If a citizen has views that are to the right of the views of the fraction x of the state’s population, that citizen’s views are said to be located at point x. There are two candidates for the congressional seat and they are forced to publicly state their own political position simultaneously on the zero-one left-right scale. 1.a  Suppose voters always vote for the candidate whose stated position is nearest to their own views and suppose each candidate cares only about getting as many votes as possible. In equilibrium, what will be the two candidates’ positions?…

Under federalism, some powers such as taxation, lawmaking or education policy might be devolved to regional bodies, such as Lander in Germany. Group of answer choices True False

What are PILOTs and why might a nonprofit be willing to participate in a PILOT? Explain the common problems associated with majority-rule voting (i.e. direct democracy). What is the principal-agent problem and why to scholars believe that it is more pronounced with a government bureaucracy than with a private firm?