Exam 15: Intergovernmental Relations

What do we call federal or state requirements imposed on state and local governments that are not tied to any financial assistance programs?

What do we call the theory that the more separation that exists between taxing and spending, the more local taxpayers will not perceive the full costs of local services?

The ability of a state to raise revenue to meet its spending requirements is called its:

Unlike the other states, which funnel elementary and secondary school money to local districts, which state directly operates its own schools?

What is the name for the structural system of intergovernmental relations that we have in the United States, in which power is shared among the federal government and 50 sovereign states, 570 Native American tribal entities, and more than 90,000 local governments; and what is the name for the most common other structural arrangement among national and non-national governmental entities?

Among the various types of federal financial assistance to states and local governments, which of the following would we place at the opposite end of the spectrum from categorical grants?

Equal opportunity to learn can be ensured by equal funding, and higher student performance can be correlated with higher funding amounts.

Federal taxes collected in the South and the West have tended to be greater than federal expenditures in these regions.

What is the term for the fundamental shift in responsibility for policy, programs, and financial aid from the federal government to the states and municipalities?

Federal aid for transportation improvements, which accounted for more than 40% of the total in the 1960s and declined to about 20% in 1970, represents approximately what percentage of total federal aid today?

In the older metropolitan areas of the Northeast and Midwest, what has been the principal factor affecting local government fiscal imbalances, causing problems in the pattern of services and the ability to pay for those services?

What is the term for that describes the economic advantage of performing governmental functions at the level (federal, state, local) that is most efficient at carrying out the assigned functions.

Which state has the highest ratio of federal spending per dollar of federal tax collected?

What constitutes the largest portion of state aid to local governments?

Any local government in the United States can be eliminated by its state.

At the state level, what does the total taxable resources (TTR) index, as calculated by U.S. Department of the Treasury, attempt to measure?

Foundation formulas for state aid to local school districts are typically tied to what measure?

About one-third of all federal aid to local governments went to municipalities, but these monies constituted only about what percentage of municipal revenues?

The ability to replace local or state resources for a program with federal grant money is known as:

When the federal government imposes its authority under the Constitution to supersede state authority, this is called: