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The conflict in role perceptions held by council members and city managers has been reported frequently in the literature on urban politics and administration. In this view, the city manager has emerged into a policy leadership role but must confine that leadership to safe areas because council continues to view the manager as an administrative technician. This thesis needs to be reexamined tobetter understand city managers and their relationship to elected officials. The manager's policy role is not new, and a review of evidence in existing studies as well as new surveys do not support the conclusion that the council and manager have conflicting definitions of the managers's role. There is some divergenc Minicipal Government U.S.A City Manager Municipal Government - Manager Plan - U.S.A Administration and Society 180718