Handbook of Local Government AdministrationThis theoretically and experientially grounded reference provides a complete overview of the principles and applications of government administration and management practices in the local public sector. Written by over 25 distinguished academics and professionals with substantial experience as practitioners and consultants of administrative operations to local governments, the book covers the effects of environmental conditions on local administrators and management techniques to administration in different types of local government. It helps readers reduce research time by presenting advanced materials on local government administration and management in a single source. |
Contents
Legal Factors Constraining | 31 |
The Practical Application of Organization Development | 71 |
A Core Responsibility of Local | 101 |
Organizing | 129 |
The Centrality of the Fiscal in Local | 159 |
Personnel Administration | 191 |
Total Quality Management in Local Government | 213 |
Local Government Capacity Building Through Performance | 239 |
Some Impediments to Policy | 317 |
The Changing Landscape of Big City Management | 387 |
County Government as the Administrative Arm of State | 403 |
Regional Councils and Challenges | 419 |
The Promise | 437 |
Political and Administrative Complexity in Governing | 463 |
Management and Governance in Midsized Urban | 487 |
Concluding Assessment | 517 |
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