The 100th anniversary of the International City/County Management Association provides an
excellent point to review and assess research on the performance of the council‐manager …

Despite extensive studies on change leadership, there is a lack of research on its multilevel
nature especially in the hierarchical context of local governance. We situate our research in …

Municipal policy leadership is shared between managers, city councilors, and mayors, all of
whom vary in institutional power and resources across municipalities. Corresponding with …

Women are still underrepresented as public-sector organizational leaders, despite
comprising half of the United States public-sector workforce. To explore the factors driving …

This study explores the nature of “collaboration” risk in joint ventures and the factors that
affect local development officials' perceptions of these risks. Extant research on barriers to …

Quais são os fatores que determinam a qualidade da governação local e como medi-los?
Este estudo propõe-se avaliar a qualidade da governação local nos 308 municípios …

In this article, we present a theoretical framework for understanding public governance
based on human perceptions. We argue that governance is at its core a human enterprise …

The most prominent set of school board governance best practices used in the United States
is the National School Boards Association's (NSBA's) Key Work of School Boards. In this …

In this article a national sample of survey data collected from US school board members
paired with school‐district level data from the National Center for Education Statistics are …

The article shows how District Chief Executives (DCEs) exert extraordinary influence on
Ghana's decentralization. Analyzing data from Afrobarometer surveys and 100 interviews …