Council-Manager Government at 100: Facilitative Governance and Citizenship Ethics in the Administrative State

Vera Vogelsang-Coombs, Lawrence Keller and Sylvester Murray

Chapter 8 in Citizenship, 2009, pp 171-186 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This is the second of our two projects about council-manager government in postmodern society. In an earlier ‘Council-Manager Government at 100: Transformational Leadership, Facilitative Governance, and Active Citizenship’ (Vogelsang-Coombs, Keller, and Murray, 2008), we argued that the classic manager form of local government, though adopted in 1908, is the best form for twenty-first-century governance. The classic city manager form rightfully understood and constitutionally practiced facilitates the governance of localities based on active citizenship. Active citizenship is not a neglected reality under the classic manager form but makes it the absolute necessity for effective municipal governance.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Political Community; Active Citizenship; City Manager; Administrative State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230244887_9

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