Chapter 12

Question 1

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Parliamentary (1) ______ and the constitutional traditions of a (2) ______ state make it possible for (3) ______ (4) ______ to change local areas and functions, more or less at will.

Prerogative consultation
sovereignty privilege
Unitary federal
consensual The courts
central government the EU
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Correct Answer: See page 251.

Question 2

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

In other European countries the responsibilities for service provision is more usually (1) ______ between different levels of government and local discretion over both services and local taxation is usually (2) ______.

Loaded on central government loaded on local government
shared Smaller
the same greater
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Correct Answer: See page 251.

Question 3

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

'The truth, sir, is that we have a chaos as regards (1) ______ a chaos as regards (2) ______, and a worse chaos than all as regards (3) ______.'

government policies roads
authorities the environment rates
parties voting governments
taxes areas
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Correct Answer: See pages 253 and 254.

Question 4

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Local democracy, like Parliamentary democracy, is also (1) ______ democracy. If there is a majority of one party on the council, policy will be decided at the (2) ______ meeting.

Sovereign participatory
coalition party
Public officers
full council
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Correct Answer: See page 257.

Question 5

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Against the Council tax it might be said that 'Banding can be (1) ______. May prove as (2) ______ as the rates during periods of inflation. Progressive element is linked to (3) ______ (4) ______ rather than income or ability to pay.'

Scientifically established too narrow arbitrary
Popular unpopular unaffordable
Notional values property values death duties
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Correct Answer: See page 260.

Question 6

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Council tax. The (1) ______ tax, which replaced the (2) ______ charge in 1993, in which, like the rates, payment is related to (3) ______ (4) ______ and levied on all occupants of property.

Local national Community
rates notional values Property values
death duties real values local
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Correct Answer: See page 261.

Question 7

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

One of the most enduring debates in democratic theory concerns the proper division of powers between different levels of government. It is generally agreed that central government should be responsible for (1) ______ (2) ______, and (3) ______ and (4) ______ (5) ______ (6) ______, while local government can handle (7) ______, (8) ______ (9) ______, and (10) ______.

Law and order national defense occupational training
Water security health
education Macro economic planning planning development funding
Welfare parks police
education Street lighting law and order
social welfare Refuse education
health housing
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Correct Answer: See page 264.

Question 8

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

One view is that local government has changed from the role of (1) ______ of public services according to local (2) ______ and demands, to (3) ______ or (4) ______ of a range of policies decided on by (5) ______ or the (6) ______.

Provider co-ordinator purchaser
Parties needs laws
Enabler provider Facilitators
purchasers The public central government
local parties Market press
officers
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Correct Answer: See page 266.

Question 9

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

It is certainly true that local services have been subjected to strong criticism in certain instances, and service quality may have (1) ______ during the poll tax years, but generally speaking most people seem to be (2) ______ with their services (3) ______ of the time.

Improved suffered
Satisfied dissatisfied
indifferent to overjoyed
Some all
part most
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Correct Answer: See page 368.

Question 10

tRead the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Conflict and (1) ______ are built into the very structure of central-local government relations in Britain, partly because both have a (2) ______ ______ and partly because central government is heavily (3) ______ ______ local government for the (4) ______ ______ ______, but has its own ideas about how to do this.

crisis tension agreement
democratic legitimacy strict budget difficult job
critical of outnumbered by dependent on
delivery of services income it receives votes it gets
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Correct Answer: See page 272.