01218pab a2200193 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Selden, Sally Coleman The role of city managers: are they principals, agents, or both? 1999 p.124-48 Jun 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 Civil service Local government Brudney, Jeffrey L. Brewer, Gene A. American Review of Public Administration 41087 41087 41087 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 29, Issue no: 2 AR41463 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR