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This 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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Factors Affecting the Contexts of Local Government Administration -- 2. Reinventing What?: The Uncertain Context of Local Government Administration -- 3. Federalism and State Law: Legal Factors Constraining and Facilitating Local Initiatives -- 4. Managing Alternative Approaches to the Provision and Production of Public Goods: Public, Private, and Nonprofit -- 5. The Practical Application of Organization Development to Local Governments -- Part II: Local Government Management Practices: The Importance of Doing the Basics Well -- 6. Strategic Management: A Core Responsibility of Local Government Administrators -- 7. Structural Arrangements in Local Government: Organizing for Effective Management -- 8. Financial Management: The Centrality of the Fiscal in Local Government and Politics -- 9. Managing Human Resources: Personnel Administration in Local Government -- 10. Total Quality Management in Local Government -- 11. Local Government Capacity Building Through Performance Measurement -- 12. Local Court Administration: Making the Judicial Trains Run on Time -- Part III: Administering Generic Types of Local Governments -- 13. Town and Township Government: Serving Rural and Suburban Communities -- 14. Small Community Governance: Some Impediments to Policy Making -- 15. Professional Administration (and Representative Governance) in the Council-Manager City -- 16. The Changing Landscape of Big City Management -- 17. County Government as the "Administrative Arm" of State Government -- 18. Coping with Externalities: Regional Councils and Challenges of Management and Governance -- 19. Managing Single Function Governments: The Promise and Challenge of Special Districts.

A consideration of the results of the governmental reform tradition, the impact of federalism and intergovernmental relations, and the effects of political culture on state government, by focusing on economic development, welfare, corrections, and environmental programmes and policies