Mayor–council Government
The mayor–council government system, sometimes called the mayor–commission government system, is one of the two most common forms of local government for municipalities in the United States. It is the one most frequently adopted in large cities, although the other form, council-manager government, is the typical local government form of more municipalities.
Characterized by having a mayor who is elected by the voters, the mayor–council variant may be broken down into two main variations depending on the relationship between the legislative and executive branches, becoming a weak mayor or a strong mayor based upon the powers of the office. These forms are used principally in modern representative municipal governments in the United States, but also are used in some other countries.
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