A Democratic candidate is more likely to gain support from interest groups such as labor unions, while a Republican candidate might gain the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

A metropolitan-wide reorganization composed of representatives from the counties and larger cities that seeks cooperative solutions to area-wide problems that touch all governments in the region is:

A. city-county consolidation. B. a council of governments. C. a metropolitan planning agency. D. two-tier government.

An initiative can be described as

A) an authorization that permits voters to remove an elected official from office before his or her term has expired. B) a procedure that allows voters to control the government directly. C) the long ballot that is used in a majority of the states. D) the opportunity for the appellate court to review the decision of the lower court. E) the final opportunity for the executive branch to amend proposed legislation.