An Institutionalist Perspective on Mayoral Leadership: Linking Leadership Style to Formal Structure

Wheeland, Craig M.

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“…For the most part, past efforts rely on a dichotomous measure of municipal structure based on the simple distinction between mayor-council and council-manager governments, but scholars of local government are increasingly calling attention to the widespread use of hybrid structures that blend elements from each form (e.g., Adrian, 1988;Ammons, 2008;Carr & Karuppusamy, 2008, 2009DeSantis & Renner, 2002;Frederickson, Johnson, & Wood, 2004a, 2004bFrederickson, Logan, & Wood, 2003;Hannah, 1987Hannah, , 1998Hansell, 1998Hansell, , 1999Newland, 1995;Protasel, 1995;Renner & DeSantis, 1998;Wheeland, 2002). This literature shows that the measures of governmental structure used in many studies of local government policy are poor indicators of the municipal structure actually used in most cities.…”

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Reassessing the Link Between City Structure and Fiscal Policy

Carr

Karuppusamy

2009

The American Review of Public Administration

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This study assesses the proposition that local government structure affects municipal expenditure levels. Despite decades of research, this question remains unsettled. Early on, analyses of this topic confirmed a linkage between municipal structure and fiscal policy, but more recent works have challenged this finding. Despite the widespread view that municipal structures are increasingly complex, many scholars continue to use simple measures of structure based on the use of the mayor-council or council-manager form. This gap between structures in practice and the measures used in research designs may explain the increasing frequency of studies with null findings. This proposition is examined through an analysis of the link between the per capita expenditures of 263 Michigan cities and four approaches to classifying local government structure. Regardless of the approach used or the complexity of the measure, no evidence was found that city structure is linked to per capita spending in these cities.

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Reassessing the Link Between City Structure and Fiscal Policy

Carr

Karuppusamy

2009

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…17 For a comparison of education and experience, information about the city managers in the thirteen council-manager cities among the forty largest was collected as well. 18 The bulk of the research was accomplished by searching the Websites of each city.…”

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“…To address the questions I have just raised, this study used the same data set on the forty largest cities in the United States analyzed by Craig Wheeland in his article in this issue. 17 For a comparison of education and experience, information about the city managers in the thirteen council-manager cities among the forty largest was collected as well. 18 The bulk of the research was accomplished by searching the Websites of each city.…”

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Assessing the CAO Position in a Strong‐Mayor Government

Nelson¹

2002

National Civic Review

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“…Such mayors help other officials work together and agree on goals. To be effective, mayors must display leadership appropriate to the responsibilities of the position as defined by the form (Wheeland 2002), although facilitation and vision can be effective in either form of government (Svara 2009b). Robert Kipp, a former city manager in Kansas City, has observed that “strong political leadership … doesn’t correlate with one structure or another” (quoted in Gurwitt 1993).…”

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Strengthening Local Government Leadership and Performance: Reexamining and Updating the Winter Commission Goals

Svara

2008

Public Administration Review

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The Winter Commission report of 1993 stressed cities with the mayor‐council form of government and emphasized removing barriers to executive authority in large cities. In order to assess and update the report, it is important to recognize that a majority of cities with populations over 100,000 use the council‐manager form, in which restrictions on the executive and fragmented authority are unlikely to be present because of the constitutional principles on which the form is based. There has been progress toward improved leadership in both forms of government and substantial management change, including the incorporation of reinventing government and e‐government practices, and large counties are more likely to have an elected or appointed executive. An emerging issue not considered by the commission but in line with its purpose is the increasing challenge of governing expanding metropolitan and megapolitan regions.

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An Institutionalist Perspective on Mayoral Leadership: Linking Leadership Style to Formal Structure

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Reassessing the Link Between City Structure and Fiscal Policy

Reassessing the Link Between City Structure and Fiscal Policy

Assessing the CAO Position in a Strong‐Mayor Government

Strengthening Local Government Leadership and Performance: Reexamining and Updating the Winter Commission Goals

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