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Local government management : current issues and best practices / edited by Douglas J. Watson and Wendy L. Hassett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ASPA classicsPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134942718
  • 1134942710
  • 9781134942787
  • 1134942788
  • 9781134942855
  • 1134942850
  • 0765611287
  • 9780765611284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Local government management.DDC classification:
  • 352.14/0973 23
LOC classification:
  • JS78
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Part 1. Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff; 1. The Manager Is a Politician; 2. The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?; 3. The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View from the Field; 4. Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities; 5. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?
6. A Case for Reinterpreted Dichotomy of Politics and Administration as a Professional Standard in Council-Manager Government7. The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities; Part 2. Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management; 8 Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers; 9. Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities; 10. Budgetary Balance: The Norm, Concept, and Practice in Large U.S. Cities; 11. Analyzing How Local Governments Establish Service Priorities.
12. State and Local Governments as Borrowers: Strategic Choices and the Capital Market13. Litigation Costs, Budget Impacts, and Cost Containment Strategies: Evidence from California Cities; Part 3. The Changing World of Public Personnel Management; 14. Municipal Government Personnel Systems: A Test of Two Archetypical Models; 15. Affirmative Action in Municipal Government: Anatomy of a Failure; 16. Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers; 17. What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting; 18. Managerial Responses to an Aging Municipal Workforce.
19. Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments20. Values Management in Local Government; Part 4. Making Local Governments More Productive and Responsive; 21. Issues in Productivity Measurement for Local Governments; 22. Improving the Goal-Setting Process in Local Government; 23. Strategies for Management of Decline and Productivity Improvement in Local Government; 24. Applying Strategic Decision Making in Local Government; 25. Implementing TQM in Local Government: The Leadership Challenge.
26. The Re-ing of Local Government: Understanding and Shaping Governmental ChangePart 5. Citizen Involvement: Opportunities for Participation; 27. Gender and Local Government: A Comparison of Women and Men City Managers; 28. The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers; 29. Dealing with Cynical Citizens; 30. Standards of Excellence: U.S. Residents' Evaluations of Local Government Services; Index; ABOUT THE EDITORS.
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"First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Part 1. Relations Between Elected Officials and Professional Staff; 1. The Manager Is a Politician; 2. The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?; 3. The Mayor as a Policy Leader in the Council-Manager Form of Government: A View from the Field; 4. Dichotomy and Duality: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Policy and Administration in Council-Manager Cities; 5. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership?

6. A Case for Reinterpreted Dichotomy of Politics and Administration as a Professional Standard in Council-Manager Government7. The Shifting Boundary Between Elected Officials and City Managers in Large Council-Manager Cities; Part 2. Using Tax Dollars Wisely: Budgeting and Financial Management; 8 Financial Management: A Balancing Act for Local Government Chief Financial Officers; 9. Budget Reform and Political Reform: Conclusions from Six Cities; 10. Budgetary Balance: The Norm, Concept, and Practice in Large U.S. Cities; 11. Analyzing How Local Governments Establish Service Priorities.

12. State and Local Governments as Borrowers: Strategic Choices and the Capital Market13. Litigation Costs, Budget Impacts, and Cost Containment Strategies: Evidence from California Cities; Part 3. The Changing World of Public Personnel Management; 14. Municipal Government Personnel Systems: A Test of Two Archetypical Models; 15. Affirmative Action in Municipal Government: Anatomy of a Failure; 16. Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers; 17. What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting; 18. Managerial Responses to an Aging Municipal Workforce.

19. Performance Appraisal Practices for Upper Management in City Governments20. Values Management in Local Government; Part 4. Making Local Governments More Productive and Responsive; 21. Issues in Productivity Measurement for Local Governments; 22. Improving the Goal-Setting Process in Local Government; 23. Strategies for Management of Decline and Productivity Improvement in Local Government; 24. Applying Strategic Decision Making in Local Government; 25. Implementing TQM in Local Government: The Leadership Challenge.

26. The Re-ing of Local Government: Understanding and Shaping Governmental ChangePart 5. Citizen Involvement: Opportunities for Participation; 27. Gender and Local Government: A Comparison of Women and Men City Managers; 28. The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers; 29. Dealing with Cynical Citizens; 30. Standards of Excellence: U.S. Residents' Evaluations of Local Government Services; Index; ABOUT THE EDITORS.

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