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Commentary: More Questions than Answers…
Author(s) -
Svrcek Bonnie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12128
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science
Population size, Republican vote, nonwhite population, and home ownership were identifi ed as institutional preferences, and unemployment rate, manufacturing establishments, fi scal health, and population growth were used in the methodology to identify sociological context and the severity of environmental change in a community. Each of these variables is quantitative in nature; I off er that there are many more data points, quantitative and qualitative, that need to be researched before we land on why communities adopt or abandon the council-manager form of government. Nearly 100 years ago, in December 1914, the City Managers’ Association, the forerunner of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), was formed when eight of the 31 existing city managers met in Springfi eld, Ohio, “to promote the effi ciency of city managers and municipal work in general” (according to the ICMA Constitution adopted at the second annual conference in Dayton, Ohio, November 1915). Today, the ICMA is a member organization of 6,000 professional local government managers in the United States.