Handbook of Local Government Administration

This book is number 62 in the series Public Administration and Public Policy: A Comprehensive Publication Programme: a heavyweight series on US public administration. A total of 22 separately authored chapters cover such subjects as federalism and state law, strategic management, structural arrangements in local government, small community governance, and big city management. This specialist book endeavours to bring together different perspectives relating to the management and administration of the “diverse reality”, of public administration. The target audience is deemed to be students on graduate courses in local government administration (for which this will serve as a textbook); participants in...