Title: Local Government Management: Current Issues and Best Practices
Abstract: Series Information List of Illustrations Part 1. Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff 1. The Manager is a Politician Karl A. Bosworth 2. The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand? Richard Stillman 3. The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View From the Field Nelson Wikstrom 4. Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities James H. Svara 5. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership? James M. Banovetz 6. A Case for Reinterpreted Dichotomy of Politics and Administration as a Professional Standard in Council-Manager Government Robert S. Montjoy and Douglas J. Watson 7. The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities James H. Svara Part 2. Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management 8. Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers W. Bartley Hildreth 9. Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities Irene S. Rubin 10. Budgetary Balance: The Norm, Concept, and Practice in Large U.S. Cities Carol W. Lewis 11. Analyzing How Local Governments Establish Service Priorities Aimee L. Franklin and Brandi Carberry-George 12. State and Local Governments as Borrowers: Strategic Choices and the Capital Market W. Bartley Hildreth 13. Litigation Costs, Budget Impacts, and Cost Containment Strategies: Evidence from California Cities Susan A. MacManus Part 3. The Changing World of Public Personnel Management 14. Municipal Government Personnel Systems: A Test of Two Archetypical Models Slegrun Fox Freyss 15. Affirmative Action in Municipal Government: Anatomy of a Failure Steve Ballard and Gayle Lawn-Day 16. Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers Richard Feiock and Christopher Stream 17. What Municipal Employees Want From Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting Carole L. Jurkiewicz and Tom K. Massey 18. Managerial Responses to an Aging Municipal Workforce Jonathan P. West and Evan M. Berman 19. Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments David N.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-06-30
Language: en
Type: book
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