ECON 2000 Chapter : Chap004
Document Summary
See tracs handouts on the cold war, foreign policy, defense & diplomatic. Local government: please pay particular attention to the section that includes the definitions of general obligation and revenue bonds. Revenue bonds are a key source of funding or most of the funding of sports stadiums and arenas in. Texas as well as municipal utility districts in texas. Furthermore, general obligation and revenue bonds are a key source (usually with voter approval) of large capital spending projects in texas cities and towns. General-law: less than 50,000 people; law is based on statues of previous precedents. Mayor council: mayor is elected at large, and depending on the budgetary appointment powers granted, he is deemed strong or weak: strong-mayor & weak-mayor governments. Home rule is the power of a constituent part of a state to exercise such of the state"s powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralised to it by the central government.
