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100			_aBox, Richard C.
245			_aResistance to professional managers in American local government
260			_c1993
300			_ap.403-18
362			_aDec
520			_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
650			_aManagers - America
650			_aLocal government - America
650			_aCivil service
650			_aLocal government
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a32657
999			_c32657 _d32657