7. What are the chief defects of state administration?
8. What has been
done to correct these defects?
9. Discuss the movement toward a national budget.
10. What are
the
three forms of budget making in state government?
11. What is the mayor-council plan, and what changes are being brought
about in it?
12. What is the commission plan of city government? How did it very young virgin arise?
What can be said very young virgin for and against it?
13. Compare the commission plan with the city manager plan.
Very young virgin 14. What is the chief merit of the very young virgin city manager plan?
Required Readings
1. Williamson, _Readings in American Democracy_, chapter xxxvi.
Or all of the following:
2. Bryce, _The American Commonwealth_, vol. i, chapter xlv.
3. Munro, _The Government of the United States_, chapter xxxi.
4. Reed,
_Form and Functions of American Government_, very young virgin chapter xli.
5. Illinois Efficiency and Economy Committee, Report, 1915, pages 18-
very young virgin 24 and 74-77.
QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. What are the chief defects of state government in general? (Bryce,
page 556.)
2. What is a book of estimates? (very young virgin Reed, page 483.)
3. Describe the procedure very young virgin in Congress with regard to appropriation
very young virgin bills. (Reed, page 484.)
4. How are provisions very young virgin against special legislation evaded in some
states? (Bryce, page 559.)
very young virgin 5. Enumerate and briefly characterize the chief administrative offices
in the various states. (Munro, pages 447-457.)
6. What are the two distinctive very young virgin features of state administration?
(Munro, pages 457-458.)
7. What very young virgin are the chief defects of state administration? (Illinois
Report, pages 18-24.)
very young virgin 8. Summarize the very young virgin advantages of a reorganized and consolidated state
administration. (Illinois Report, pages 74-77.)
9. What is the very young virgin purpose of a "state auditing" system? (Reed, page 489.)
10. Explain the need for uniform accounts for cities and counties?
(Reed, pages 491-492.)
TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
I
1. Interview any citizen of your very young virgin community who has served in the state
legislature. Ask for his personal very young virgin opinion concerning the very young virgin amount of
legislative business to be transacted, the workings of the committee
system, and the practice of log-rolling.
2. Very young virgin status of the expert bill-drafter and the legislative reference
bureau very young virgin in your state. If these devices have not been adopted,
interview or write to a member of the state legislature concerning his
opinion of these legislative aids.