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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Selden, Sally Coleman |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The role of city managers: are they principals, agents, or both? |
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1999 |
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p.124-48 |
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Jun |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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This study uses a survey of 1,135 city managers to evaluate the contemporary city manager role and to evaluate its consistency with principal-agent theory. The findings are mixed. It appears that city councils can control city managers as principal-agent theory suggests, but that most city councils opt for less complex solutions involving trust and role sharing with the city manager. In other words, principal-agent theory does not fully explain the council-manager relationship. In an effort to understand this relationship more thoroughly, this study develops a typology of city manager roles based on the extent of their involvement in policy and the degree of autonomy exercised. - Reproduced |
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Civil service |
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Local government |
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Brudney, Jeffrey L. |
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Brewer, Gene A. |
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American Review of Public Administration |
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