City Managers' Policy Leadership in Council-Manager Cities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhang, Yahong; Feiock, Richard C.
• 署名单位: Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mup015
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 461-476
• 关键词: dichotomy; POLITICS; GOVERNMENT; entrepreneur; institutions; Duality; roles; mayor; MODEL

摘要

City managers' policy leadership has drawn great attention from scholars of public administration. However, what factors explain variation in managers' policy-making roles has not been systematically explored. This study investigates the mechanisms leading elected officials to defer to the manager in policy making. Survey data from Florida council-manager cities indicate that noninstitutional factors-such as mayors' political experience, managers' professionalism, and concordance of manager and council preferences-influence the likelihood that a council will allow a manager to exercise policy influence. The data reveal that city managers earn policy-making leadership at the expense of their administrative authority. Thus, managers must reconcile inherent tensions between responsibility and compliance.