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Chapter 2
Table 2–1: Adapted from James H. Svara, “U.S. City Managers and Administrators in a Global Perspective,” The Municipal Year Book 1999 (Washington, D.C.: ICMA, 1999), Table 3/6.
Table 2–2: Computed from survey conducted in 2001 by James H. Svara for the National League of Cities.
Table 2–3: Prepared from data in James H. Svara, “Mayors in the Unity of Powers Context,” In The Future of Local Government Administration: The Hansell Symposium, ed. H. George Frederickson and John Nalbandian, eds. (Washington, D.C.: ICMA, 2002).
Table 2–4: James H. Svara, Two Decades of Continuity and Change in American City Councils (Washington, D.C.: National League of Cities, 2003), 18, Table III.4.
Table 2–5: Calculated from Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1).
Chapter 4
Table 4–1: Charldean Newell, ed., The Effective Local Government Manager, 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C.: ICMA, 1993), 139.
Figure 4–1: Raymond Pachett, city manager, Carlsbad, California, February 2003.
Chapter 5
Tables 5–1 and 5–2: Adapted from Mary E. Guy and Seung-Bum Yang, “Conditions for Effective Self-Managed Work Teams: Lessons from the U.S. Experience,” in Central-Local Relations and Local Government Reform in Korea, ed. Byong-Joon Kim and Glen Hahn Cope (South Korea: Korea Association for Policy Studies, 2003).
Chapter 6
Figure 6–4: “Information Technology Trends,” provided by Gartner Dataquest, 2003 State and Local Sourcebook (Washington, D.C.: Governing, 2003), 104.
Chapter 8
Leadership self-assessment: Adapted from self-assessment by the National School Boards Association, Alexandria, Virginia; www.nsba.org/site/index.asp.