Name: More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities (en Inglés)
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Author: Svara, James H. ; Watson, Douglas J. ; Benton, J. Edwin
ISBN: 9781589017092

portada More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities (en Inglés)

More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Georgetown University Press

Autor

Svara, James H. ; Watson, Douglas J. ; Benton, J. Edwin

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN

1589017099

ISBN13

9781589017092

Categorías

Administración pública
Planificación y gestión urbana y municipal

More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities (en Inglés)"

Different forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States. The two most common structures are the mayor-council form and the council-manager form. In many large U.S. cities, there have been passionate movements to change the structure of city governments and equally intense efforts to defend an existing structure. Charter change (or preservation) is supported to solve problems such as legislative gridlock, corruption, weak executive leadership, short-range policies, or ineffective delivery of services. Some of these cities changed their form of government through referendum while other cities chose to retain the form in use.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: St. Petersburg, Florida; Spokane, Washington; Hartford, Connecticut; Richmond, Virginia; San Diego, California; Oakland, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Topeka, Kansas; St. Louis, Missouri; and Portland, Oregon. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of government--the 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. This insightful volume will be of special interest to leaders and interest groups currently considering or facing efforts to change the form of government as well as scholars in the field of urban studies.