Providing a critical examination of government in American cities, this volume presents the innovative view that mayors in council-manager cities are better pos

How will increasingly diverse cities and counties strengthen their political leadership for the 1990s and beyond? How can mayors and other officials become effe

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More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two d

Though mayors directly elected by the residents of a city are so commonplace as to go without comment in the United States and Canada, in many other countries,