Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Volume 35, Issue 4, p. 311-326
ISSN: 0275-0740
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In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Volume 35, Issue 4, p. 311-326
ISSN: 0275-0740
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 200-208
ISSN: 1540-6210
This study examines the different attitudes of newly elected officials and senior incumbents on variables that are considered to be the building blocks of the relationship between local elected officials and professional civil service staff: council respect for the city's professional staff; a clear understanding of the roles of council and the staff; and the governing body's commitment towards working as a group and toward consensus. Governing body members who have served for eight or more years show greater respect for staff, have greater role understanding, and value teamwork among their colleagues more than their newly elected counterparts. While there are differences, the attitudes of long‐term officials appear to change little while in office. They enter office with the building blocks of their own success. These findings are based on a cross‐sectional and modest longitudinal survey research design, supplemented by in‐depth interviews.
In: Review of public personnel administration, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 79-82
ISSN: 1552-759X
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 200-208
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Review of public personnel administration, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 346-349
ISSN: 1552-759X
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Volume 90, Issue 1, p. 63-74
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: Public management: PM, Volume 82, Issue 3, p. 7-12
ISSN: 0033-3611
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 59, Issue 3, p. 187
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Journal of public administration research and theory, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 617-622
ISSN: 1053-1858
Nalbandian reviews 'Changing Public Sector Values' by Montgomery Van Wart.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 54, Issue 6, p. 531
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 54, Issue 6, p. 531-536
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 50, Issue 6, p. 654
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 261-278
ISSN: 1552-3357
A growing body of recent literature documents the city manager's politically active role in today's communities. This role challenges the normative assumption upon which the council-manager plan of government is based; namely that the city manager is a politically neutral, administrative expert subordinate to a governing body. On the basis of in-depth interviews and the published work of today's city managers primarily, the way city managers explain and justify their role is identified and examined.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 49, Issue 3, p. 293
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: American review of public administration: ARPA, Volume 19, p. 261-278
ISSN: 0275-0740