Chapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Bringing the Mayors Back In Chapter 5 City Hall Powerhouses: The Politics of Reconstruction Chapter 6 City Hall Masters: Reconstructive Variations Chapter 7 Conflict and Crisis at City Hall: The Politics of Preemption Chapter 8 Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York: The Case of Preemptive Greatness Chapter 9 The Modern American Mayoralty Chapter 10 Index
Richard M. Flanagan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Professor Flanagan holds a doctorate in Political Science from Rutgers University.
[Flanagan's mayoral leadership] case studies...are consistently
interesting, engagingly well written, and instructive. -- Richard
E. DeLeon, San Francisco State University * Political Science
Quarterly *
It is useful to start and finish with Richard Flanagan, a political
scientist who provides a broad framework for understanding mayors
from the New Deal to the present and offers incisive portraits of
both successful and unsuccessful mayors. -- James H. Svara, Arizona
State University * Public Administration Review *
This well-written monograph on mayoral leadership in selected large
U.S. cities provides several insights into an understudied and
insufficiently appreciated elective executive office. Summing Up:
RECOMMENDED. All four-year university libraries and public
libraries in the cities with mayors featured. -- E.T. Jones,
University of Missouri?St. Louis * CHOICE *
For a variety of reasons, there are relatively few comparative
studies of mayoral leadership. Flanagan's work helps to fill this
void...The author's attempt to create a 'unified field theory' of
executive politics by applying presidential theories to mayoral
politics is to be applauded...Political scientists need to do more
work that examines how the mayors of multiple major cities
function. The great virtue of Mayors and the Challenge of Urban
Leadership is that it helps to fill the void. -- Andrew McNitt,
Eastern Illinois University * Perspectives on Politics *
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