Mayoral Leadership and Facilitative Governance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Publication Title
American Review of Public Administration
Abstract
This analysis offers a contingency model of mayoral leadership based on a long view of a city's institutional context and substantive interests. This model generates four distinct governance types or styles of mayoral administration--populism, progressivism, constitutionalism, and managerialism. The author uses empirical evidence drawn from familiar mayoral administrations to analyze shifts within and across these governance types. By integrating normative public administration into the dynamics of urban governance, this model yields robust findings concerning mayoral-regime relationships. The author concludes that the renewal of a fiscally stressed big city is in facilitative governance. Facilitative governance blends managerialism and constitutionalism, whereas its normative basis is democratic conservatorship. By activating the ethos of public administration, a mayoral conservator facilitates the regime conditions necessary for economic, political, and social inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Repository Citation
Vogelsang-Coombs, Vera D., "Mayoral Leadership and Facilitative Governance" (2007). All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications. 0 1 2 3 925.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/925
Volume
37
Issue
2
