The Adoption and Abandonment of Council-Manager Government

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Choi, Cheon Geun; Feiock, Richard C.; Bae, Jungah
• 署名单位: Hansung University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12097
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 727-736
• 关键词: political ethos; AMERICAN CITIES; city; REFORM; form; models; time

摘要

What accounts for patterns of city adoption and abandonment of council-manager government? Despite dozens of empirical studies, we lack a systematic understanding of these forces over time because previous work has relied on cross-sectional designs or analysis of change over short periods. This article begins to fill this lacuna by constructing a historical data set spanning 75 years for the 191 largest cities with either mayor-council or council-manager governments in 1930. Event history analysis is applied to isolate adoption and abandonment trends and to provide new evidence revealing the forces that have shaped the trajectory of institutional change in U.S. cities. This analysis reveals that social context factorsin particular, economic conditionsgenerate both adoptions and abandonments.