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

, by Watson,Douglas J.

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ISBN: 9780765611277 | 0765611279
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/30/2003

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List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Part 1. Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff

(86)

1. The Manager Is a Politician

Karl A. Bosworth

(7)

2. The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?

Richard J. Stillman II

(14)

3. The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View from the Field

Nelson Wikstrom

(10)

4. Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities

James H. Svara

(15)

5. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?

James M. Banovett

(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

(13)

7. The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities

James H. Svara

(14)

Part 2. Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management

(98)

8. Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers

W. Bartley Hildreth

(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

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