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.