Local Government Management: Current Issues and Best Practices: Current Issues and Best Practices

by Watson,Douglas J.

• ISBN13: 9780765611277
• ISBN10: 0765611279
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes	ix
Part 1. Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff	1	(86)
1. The Manager Is a Politician
Karl A. Bosworth	5	(7)
2. The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?
Richard J. Stillman II	12	(14)
3. The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View from the Field
Nelson Wikstrom	26	(10)
4. Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities
James H. Svara	36	(15)
5. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?
James M. Banovett	51	(9)
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	60	(13)
7. The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities
James H. Svara	73	(14)
Part 2. Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management	87	(98)
8. Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers
W. Bartley Hildreth	91	(15)
9. Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities
Irene S. Rubin	106	(18)
10. Budgetary Balance: The Norm, Concept, and Practice in Large U.S. Cities
Carol W. Lewis	124	(17)
11. Analyzing How Local Governments Establish Service Priorities
Aimee L. Franklin and Brandi Carberry-George	141	(13)
12. State and Local Governments as Borrowers: Strategic Choices and the Capital Market
W. Bartley Hildreth	154	(15)
13. Litigation Costs, Budget Impacts, and Cost Containment Strategies: Evidence from California Cities
Susan A. MacManus	169	(16)
Part 3. The Changing World of Public Personnel Management	185	(94)
14. Municipal Government Personnel Systems: A Test of Two Archetypical Models
Siegrun Fox Freyss	189	(19)
15. Affirmative Action in Municipal Government: Anatomy of a Failure
Steve Ballard and Gayle Lawn-Day	208	(11)
16. Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers
Richard Feiock and Christopher Stream	219	(10)
17. What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting
Carole L. Jurkiewicz and Tom K. Massey	229	(10)
18. Managerial Responses to an Aging Municipal Workforce
Jonathan P. West and Evan M. Berman	239	(17)
19. Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments
David N. Animons and Arnold Rodriguez	256	(10)
20. Values Management in Local Government
Evan M. Berman and Jonathan P. West	266	(13)
Part 4. Making Local Governments More Productive and Responsive	279	(74)
21. Issues in Productivity Measurement for Local Governments
Harry P. Hatry	283	(10)
22. Improving the Goal-Setting Process in Local Government
Louise G. White	293	(11)
23. Strategies for Management of Decline and Productivity Improvement in Local Government
Richard G. Higgins, Jr.	304	(14)
24. Applying Strategic Decision Making in Local Government
Gregory Streib	318	(11)
25. Implementing TQM in Local Government: The Leadership Challenge
Jonathan P. West, Evan M. Berman, and Michael E. Milakovich	329	(12)
26. The Re-ing of Local Government: Understanding and Shaping Governmental Change
Herbert A. Marlowe, Jr., Ronald Nyhan, Lawrence W. Arrington, and William J. Pammer	341	(12)
Part 5. Citizen Involvement: Opportunities for Participation	353	(68)
27. Gender and Local Government: A Comparison of Women and Men City Managers
Richard L. Fox and Robert A. Schuhmann	355	(17)
28. The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers
Paul Teske and Mark Schneider	372	(17)
29. Dealing with Cynical Citizens
Evan M. Berman	389	(14)
30. Standards of Excellence: U.S. Residents' Evaluations of Local Government Services
Thomas I. Miller and Michelle A. Miller	403	(18)
Index	421