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9780765611284

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765611284

  • ISBN10:

    0765611287

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff
The Manager Is a Politician
The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?
The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View From the Field
Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities
City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?
A Case for Reinterpreted Dichotomy of Politics and Administration as a Professional Standard in Council-Manager Government
The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities
Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management
Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers
Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities
Budgetary Balance: The Norm, Concept, and Practice in Large U.S. Cities
Analyzing How Local Governments Establish Service Priorities
State and Local Governments as Borrowers: Strategic Choices and the Capital Market
Litigation Costs, Budget Impacts, and Cost Containment Strategies: Evidence from California Cities
The Changing World of Public Personnel Management
Municipal Government Personnel Systems: A Test of Two Archetypical Models
Affirmative Action in Municipal Government: Anatomy of a Failure
Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers
What Municipal Employees Want From Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting
Managerial Responses to an Aging Municipal Workforce
Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments
Values Management in Local Government
Making Local Governments More Productive and Responsive
Issues in Productivity Measurement for Local Governments
Improving the Goal-Setting Process in Local Government
Strategies for Management of Decline and Productivity Improvement in Local Government
Applying Strategic Decision Making in Local Government
Implementing TQM in Local Government: The: Leadership Challenge
The Re-ing of Local Government: Understanding and Shaping Governmental Change
Citizen Involvement: Opportunities for Participation
Gender and Local Government: A Comparison of Women and Men City Managers
The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers
Dealing with Cynical Citizens
Standards of Excellence: U.S. Residents Evaluations of Local Government Services
Index
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