01592pab a2200205 454500008004000000100002000040245006900060260000900129300001300138362000800151520095800159650002301117650003101140650001801171650002101189773004501210909001001255999001701265952010401282180718b1993   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBox, Richard C.  aResistance to professional managers in American local government  c1993  ap.403-18  aDec  aBecause of the American tradition of self-government and mistrust of administration, city-management professionals face difficulty in securing citizen acceptance of their roles. This is a particularly acute problem in the city manager form of local government because the manager is highly visible as the non-elected executive head of the agency. This paper argues that community resistance to the role of the local government general management professional is caused largely by a fear of loss of personal access or influence over governance, in essence, a conflict between the value of identification with community and the value of rational administration. The future of city management and local government professionalism generally may depend on an ability to adapt the premises of rational, scientifically based administration to the realities of the citizen's need for a sense of identification with a political and social community. - Reproduced  aManagers - America  aLocal government - America  aCivil service  aLocal government  aAmerican Review of Public Administration  a32657  c32657d32657  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 23, Issue no: 4pAR32855r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR