Managing Local Government for Improved Performance: A Practical Approach - Hardcover

Rapp, Brian W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367020874 ISBN 13: 9780367020873

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

After working for nearly three years to improve the performance of the government of Flint, Michigan―and discovering that there was no comprehensive work on the subject of local-government management to refer to―Brian Rapp and Frank M. Patitucci felt a personal as well as a professional need to write a book that would help them understand their successes and failures, and that would help others do a better job in similar situations. The result, this book, is unique both in its approach and in its presentation. The authors, establishing a conceptual framework within which to understand their subject, use Flint as a case city to examine the practical impact of factors affecting city government, and they indicate the major standards and criteria that should be applied in evaluating that impact. Although they recognize that within each city there are unique conditions that make a blanket prescription impossible, the authors are nevertheless convinced that many individuals both in and out of government can do something to improve the performance of their city government, and they have set out to help these individuals understand, in the most concrete terms possible, how they might go about it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367020874
• ISBN 13: 9780367020873
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444