Ideology and Decision Making for American City Managers
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Affairs Quarterly
- Vol. 22 (3) , 454-474
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168702200306
Abstract
The influence that political ideology and demographic and professional factors exert on the propensity of city managers to educate the city council concerning their own positions on distributive urban policy issues is investigated in this article. Political ideology appears to be the strongest influence on the priorities that managers establish for educating the council about distributive community policy issues; political party affiliation, geographic region, education, role orientation (administrative or political), and age show less, but negligible, influence. Finally, several of these factors are associated with the political ideology of city managers and provide a preliminary explanation for the etiology of city managers' political ideology.Keywords
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