More Than Mayor Or Manager
Title | More Than Mayor Or Manager PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Svara |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2010-12-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1589017099 |
More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of governmentùthe causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. --
The Role of the Council in a Strong-mayor Council City
Title | The Role of the Council in a Strong-mayor Council City PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lincoln Drake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Bloomington (Ind.) |
ISBN |
What Your Mayor Does
Title | What Your Mayor Does PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest A. Ostro |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780806920160 |
Describes the function of a mayor within a city government by following a fictional mayor from his election through his term in office.
Official Leadership in the City
Title | Official Leadership in the City PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Svara |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 1990-03-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0195363361 |
The burden of addressing the problems of urban society fall increasingly on cities as the federal government cuts back domestic spending. This book examines the roles of mayors, councils, and administrators in governing and managing their cities. Positing that the internal dynamics of city governments are largely shaped by their structures, the author shows how council-manager governmental structures often foster more cooperation than do mayor-council structures. Svara provides contrasting models of interaction among officials in the two forms and shows how conflict and cooperation affect the performance of officials in the two structures; he contends that proper understanding of the roles and behavior appropriate to each will lead to equal effectiveness between the two.
Handbook for Georgia Mayors and Councilmembers
Title | Handbook for Georgia Mayors and Councilmembers PDF eBook |
Author | Betty J. Hudson |
Publisher | University of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Government |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Municipal government |
ISBN | 9780898542202 |
The Relative Power Position of Mayors in Mayor-council Cities
Title | The Relative Power Position of Mayors in Mayor-council Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Marion Ross |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Mayors |
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Forms of City Government
Title | Forms of City Government PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Municipal government |
ISBN |