An Examination of a Mayor's Formal or Structural Powers Can

question 45

Multiple Choice

An examination of a mayor's formal or structural powers can be used to

• A)determine whether that office is categorized as a strong or weak one.
• B)determine the type of person who will be selected for the office.
• C)determine how successful the incumbent will be in getting policies accepted by the council.
• D)predict how often the economic elite will succeed in influencing policymaking.

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Definitions:

Symmetrical

A characteristic of a shape or distribution where one half is a mirror image of the other half, usually about a central point or axis.

Unimodal Distribution

A type of distribution that has a single peak or mode, showing one predominant frequency of data points.

Negatively Skewed Distribution

A distribution shape where the tail is on the left side, indicating that the bulk of values are concentrated on the right.

Mode

The number that occurs the greatest number of times in a series of data.