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100			_aCooper, Christopher A. and Rimes, Heather _959501
245			_aTowards a measure of local legislative professionalism
260			_aUrban Affairs Review
300			_a60(4), Jul, 2024: p.1254-1271
520			_aMunicipal policy leadership is shared between managers, city councilors, and mayors, all of whom vary in institutional power and resources across municipalities. Corresponding with their importance, scholars have established consistent measures of professionalism for Mayors and City Managers. Unfortunately, there is no parallel measure of professionalism for city councils. After reviewing the role of councils in local policy leadership and establishing the need for a systematic measure of local legislative professionalism, this paper uses data from over 4,000 municipalities to develop a measure of legislative professionalism for city councils. We demonstrate that considerable variation exists in levels of professionalism among local legislatures and describe the implications of this variation for questions of municipal policy leadership and local legislative representation.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231194937
650			_aProfessionalism, City councils, Municipal leadership. _948677
773			_aUrban Affairs Review
906			_aURBAN DEVELOPMENT
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