government

Examples of government in the following topics:

• The Powers of Local Government

  • Powers of local governments are defined by state rather than federal law, and states have adopted a variety of systems of local government.
  • The US Census Bureau conducts the Census of Governments every five years to compile statistics on government organization, public employment, and government finances.
  • The categories of local government established in this Census of Governments is a convenient basis for understanding local government: county governments, town or township governments, municipal governments and special-purpose local governments.
  • County governments are organized local governments authorized in state constitutions and statutes.
  • Town or township governments are organized local governments authorized in the state constitutions and statutes of states, established to provide general government for a defined area, generally based on the geographic subdivision of a county.

• Governmental Interest Groups

  • Government interest groups are a unique type of interest group that represents the interests of government to other governments.
  • Government interest groups are a unique form of interest groups that represent the interests of government to other governments.
  • Since then local governments have continued their efforts.
  • FERA was part of the New Deal federal funding to state and local governments.
  • Give examples of government interest groups and their influence on policy

• Government Corporations

  • Government corporations are revenue generating enterprises that are legally distinct from but operated by the federal government.
  • A government-owned corporation, also known as a state-owned company, state enterprise, publicly owned corporation, or commercial government agency, is a legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of the government.
  • In some cases, government-owned corporations are considered part of the government, and are directly controlled by it.
  • Lastly, the government sometimes controls government acquired corporations--corporations that were not chartered or created by the government, but which it comes to possess and operate.
  • Differentiate between a government-owned corporation, a government-sponsored enterprise, and organizations chartered by the government that provide public services

• Devolution

  • Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from central government to government at a regional, local, or state level.
  • Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from central government to government at a regional, local, or state level.
  • In the United States, local governments are subdivisions of states, while the federal government, state governments and federally recognized American Indian tribal nations are recognized by the United States Constitution.
  • Theoretically, a state could abolish all local governments within its borders.
  • The governor of some states may also have power over local government affairs.

• The Party in Government

  • A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament.
  • A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system.
  • The term "majority government" may also be used for a stable coalition of two or more parties to form an absolute majority.
  • This is the first true coalition government in the UK since World War II.
  • Earlier in the 20th century, divided government was rare, but since the 1970s it has become increasingly common.

• Introduction to Evaluating and Justifying Government

  • Our basic relationship with government is an involuntary association, and in this sense we are justified in saying that government is an involuntary association.
  • The policeman is hired by government-as-contractor I; as an employee, his relationship with the government is a compound-voluntary association.
  • But government obtains the money used for his salary via the power of the sword.
  • However, contract theorists have always foundered on the fact that not everybody subject to a government consents, or has consented, to be governed by it.
  • But when a government imposes sanctions it does not require unanimity.

• Forms of Government

  • A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized (synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government").
  • Governments consist of two broad interplaying elements that generally determine how a government is coded: the power source and the power structure.
  • States are served by a continuous succession of different governments.
  • After World War II, many governments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa were ruled by autocratic governments.
  • Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

• Protecting Citizens from Other Governments

  • A fourth governmental function is to protect us from other governments.
  • If there were a world government, external defense would be unnecessary.
  • In the United States at least three governments usually legislate for any one place: the federal government, a state government, and a city or county government.
  • In 1917 Russia was governed from February to October both by the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky and by the Petrograd Soviet, dominated by Lenin.
  • A government unable to protect its subjects from the sanctions of other or would-be governments is, to say the least, not a completely viable one.

• Limited Government

  • In a limited government, the power of government to intervene in the exercise of civil liberties is restricted by constitutional law.
  • A constitutionally limited government is a system of government that is bound to certain principles of action by a state constitution.
  • Such an understanding of limited government, as explained by James Madison, does not place arbitrary and ideologically biased parameters on the actions of a government, thus allowing government to change as time demands.
  • Government can do some things and not others.
  • Other actions are forbidden to the federal government and are reserved to state or local governments.

• Deficit Spending, the Public Debt, and Policy Making

  • Government debt is the debt owed by a central government.
  • In the United States and other federal states, government debt may also refer to the debt of a state or provincial government, municipal or local government.
  • Government debt is one method of financing government operations, but it is not the only method.
  • Doing this, however, simply reduces government interest costs, rather than truly fixing the government debt.
  • Governments usually borrow by issuing securities, government bonds, and bills.