Preparing for City Management Careers: What's Important?

1 R. P. Nathan , A. D. Manuel , and S. E. Calkins , Monitoring Revenue Sharing. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1975.

2 R. P. Nathan and C. F. Adams, Jr. , Revenue Sharing: The Second Round. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1977.

3 D. Rogers and W. D. Hawley , "The Mismanagement of Cities and Defective Delivery Systems" in Improving the Quality of Urban Management: Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Vol. 8. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1974.

⁴ The Texas City Management Association has established standing committees to improve MPA and professional programs in the state. The author's conversations with members of these committees indicate Texas managers are anything but sanguine about the prospects for easily improving either local management education or professional development. They continue to work for improvements primarily because the current situation is so inadequate in their view.

5 Edward Battle Lewis , "City Managers in Regional Perspective: Is the South Different?," 43 Southern Review of Public Administration (1980): 404-426.

Ronald O. Loveridge , City Managers in Legislative Politics. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1971.

7 Jeptha J. Carrell , "The City Manager and His Council: Sources of Conflict," 23 Public Administration Review (1962): 203-208.

8 Timothy Almy , "Local Cosmopolitans and U.S. City Managers," 10 Urban Affairs Quarterly (1965): 243-272.

9 H. Mintzberg , The Nature of Managerial Work. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

10 C. Argyris and D. A. Schon , Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1974.

11 H. A. Simon , Administrative Behavior, 3rd edition. New York: Free Press, 1976, pp. 15-16.

12 John P. Frendreis , "Webs of Local Administration: Pattems of Reputation and Personal Interaction Among American City Managers." Unpublished Paper, 1981.

13Texas City Management Association Directory. Austin, 1979.

¹⁴ Quotes from the interviews are not attributed to preserve subjects' anonymity.

¹⁶ Booth, op. cit., pp. 54-60.

18 Richard Joseph Stillman II , "The City Manager: Professional Helping Hand, or Political Hired Hand?," 37 Public Administration Review (1977): 659-670.

¹⁹ Almy, op. cit.

20 Thomas Dye , "The Local Cosmopolitan Dimension and the Study of the Urban Politics," 4 Social Forces (1973): 239-246.