Contemporary challenges in local government

Nalbandian, John; Nalbandian, Carol

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“…City and county managers and some mayors are familiar with “working the gap” between administrative sustainability and political acceptability (Nalbandian ; Nalbandian and Nalbandian , ; Svara ), and much has been written about the importance of council‐staff effectiveness since initiation of the council‐manager form in the early twentieth century (Nalbandian and Portillo ). Today, most managers recognize this as part of their role.…”

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Contemporary Challenges in Local Government: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities, Structures, and Processes

Nalbandian

O’Neill

Wilkes

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Public Administration Review

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Editor's Note: The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2014. This article is the first of several that will appear during the next year about the council‐manager plan to commemorate ICMA's 100th anniversary. Three contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. The first encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and administrative arenas. The second promotes collaborative work, synchronizing city and county boundaries with problems that have no jurisdictional homes. The third argues that citizen engagement is no longer optional—it is imperative—and that connecting engagement initiatives to traditional political values and governing processes is an important mark of successful community building. These three leadership challenges stem from a widening gap between the arenas of politics and administration—that is, between what is politically acceptable in public policy making and what is administratively sustainable. The gap is fueled by conflicting trends experienced locally and common internationally. Failure to bridge this gap between political acceptability and administrative sustainability results in decreasing legitimacy for governing institutions and increasing challenges.

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Contemporary Challenges in Local Government: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities, Structures, and Processes

Nalbandian

O’Neill

Wilkes

et al. 2013

Public Administration Review

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“…Public administration and leadership scholars are expressing growing concerns that existing models of leadership may not fully capture the leadership dynamics operating in today's complex environments (McKelvey and Lichtenstein ). In a recent issue of Public Administration Review, authors (Hansen ; Nalbandian et al ; Van Wart 2013) emphasized the importance of leadership processes in enabling change and transformation in complex public sector systems, yet many of these studies draw on leadership constructs based on “classical management and role theory” (Van Wart 2013, 553). In the twenty‐first century, the multiplicity of actors, contexts, and paradigmatic shifts in public administration present distinct challenges to leadership (Heifetz, Linsky, and Grashow ; Terry ; Van Wart 2003).…”

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Managing the Entanglement: Complexity Leadership in Public Sector Systems

Murphy

Rhodes

Meek

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Public Administration Review

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Complexity in public sector systems requires leaders to balance the administrative practices necessary to be aligned and efficient in the management of routine challenges and the adaptive practices required to respond to dynamic circumstances. Conventional notions of leadership in the field of public administration do not fully explain the role of leadership in balancing the entanglement of formal, top‐down, administrative functions and informal, emergent, adaptive functions within public sector settings with different levels of complexity. Drawing on and extending existing complexity leadership constructs, this article explores how leadership is enacted over the duration of six urban regeneration projects representing high, medium, and low levels of project complexity. The article suggests that greater attention needs to be paid to the tensions inherent in enabling leadership if actors are to cope with the complex, collaborative, cross‐boundary, adaptive work in which they are increasingly engaged.

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Debate: Community governance as a response to economic crisis

Sancino

2010

Public Money & Management

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Contemporary challenges in local government

Cited by 4 publications

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Contemporary Challenges in Local Government: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities, Structures, and Processes

Contemporary Challenges in Local Government: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities, Structures, and Processes

Managing the Entanglement: Complexity Leadership in Public Sector Systems

Debate: Community governance as a response to economic crisis

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