The City Manager in the Community: An Exploratory Study
| dc.contributor.author | Field, Gary R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-16T19:26:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-16T19:26:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1959-06 | |
| dc.description | 286 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis cannot approach the magnitude of the research project suggested in the preceeding several paragraphs. A more manageable problem, and seemingly a necessary step leading to a more critical examination of city manager government, will be set forth here, however. The starting point of this study is the writer's surmise that the doctrines and concepts of the International City Manager's Association do not serve as an adequate or realistic tool, or model, by which the behavior or activities of city managers can be analyzed or understood. Before presenting what might be termed the occupation's self-conception, or its public image, in Chapter IV, two narratives of a community's experience with city manager government will be related. The first narrative describes several conflict situations Involving the adoption of the manager plan and the hiring and dismissal of several managers. The second narrative directs attention to the process of policy formation in the community. In this narrative annexation serves as the specific policy question in which two city managers in the same community were involved. In Chapter V the writer will present material which can be used as the basis for a more realistic analysis of manager government. Material from public administration and sociology will be used in this critique of the public image of city manager government. The two narrativesĀ« stressing conflict and the process of policy formation, will be used as the "anchor" for the more theoretical material. Finally, in the last chapter of the study, the writer will summarize the material which has been set forth, and make more explicit some critical thoughts about the possible results of manager government. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28300 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | manager government | en_US |
| dc.subject | ideology | en_US |
| dc.subject | policy formation | en_US |
| dc.title | The City Manager in the Community: An Exploratory Study | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |