1st Edition
Local Government Management
In a recent paradigm shift, local governments find themselves shouldering more responsibility for day-to-day governance and crisis management, thanks to regulations and federal spending cuts. While 20 years ago a book on local government administration might have been considered complete with chapters on budgeting, public personnel management, productivity and responsivity, and community engagement, any discussion of local government must now also include resilience, emergency management, climate change, smart cities, social media, and infrastructure funding. Bringing together key voices from the academic and public sectors, Local Government Management offers techniques and insight into how local government can most effectively lead and manage their resources in an evolving political—and environmental—landscape.
Featuring examples from expert contributors’ own decades of public service and research, this forward-thinking book explores the rapid speed of change in local communities and the need for local government to not only adapt but also proactively plan for the future. Local Government Management is essential reading for local government officials, public stakeholders, practitioners, and students of public administration and management.
- Introduction
- Elected Officials and City Managers
- The City Manager’s Perspective
- Civic Engagement, Policy, and Management through Digital Strategy and Communication Networks
- Budgeting and Financial Management
- Human Resources
- Economic Development, Land Use, and Resilience Impact on Growth Policy
- E-Government, Privacy, Technology, and Innovation
- The Sharing Economy: A Disruptive Innovator for City Government
- Business Stakeholders in Local Government and the Community
- Local Government Management and Paramedicine
- Municipal Government Relations
- School Districts
- Local Government and Nonprofit Relationships
- Urban Planning and Affordable Housing
- Homelessness and Affordable Housing in the Urban Areas
- Immigration and the American City
- Green Movement: Environmental Concerns
- Accountability
- Strategic Planning and Non-Routine Management Challenges: Homeland Security and Emergency Management, e.g. COVID-19
- Epilogue: Trends and Current Issues
Paul G. Grimes
Aretha R. Ferrell-Benavides
James Fisher, Jeffrey H. Moshier, and Teodoro J. Benavides
Sana Salma Syed
Teodoro J. Benavides
Samantha Dean
Trent O. Petty
Joe Beauchamp
Jeffrey H. Moshier
John Jacobs
Kristi L. Valcik
Brett Wilkinson
Teodoro J. Benavides
Todd Jordan
Paul Frederiksen
Celeste Haiduk Cox and Alma Hernandez
Jesus Nava
Jill Jordan
Tarron J. Richardson
Nicolas A. Valcik
Nicolas A. Valcik and Ted J. Benavides
Biography
Nicolas A. Valcik works as the Director of Effectiveness Analytics for a college based in Texas. Previously he worked for Texas Tech University as the Director of Institutional Research, UT-Permian Basin as the Director of Institutional Research and Business Intelligence, Central Washington University as the Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, and the University of Texas at Dallas as the Associate Director for the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis. He additionally held a faculty appointment for the Program of Public Affairs in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the editor/author of numerous books and chapters for Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Teodoro J. Benavides serves as a faculty member and the MPA Director for the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences’ Public and Nonprofit Management Program. He previously served as a Senior Vice President for the Waters Consulting Group and served from 1998 to 2004 as City Manager of Dallas, Texas. He was responsible for administering all programs and services for the city’s 1.2 million people, overseeing an annual $1.9 billion municipal budget, and directing a workforce of 13,000 employees. Benavides serves as a member of the City of Glenn Heights, Texas, Economic Development Corporation. He is the co-author of City Planning for the Public Manager (Routledge, 2018), Non-Profit Organizations (Routledge, 2015), and Practical Human Resources Management for Public Managers (Routledge, 2011).
