KEANEY, Richard C <br/><br/>
Reinventing government :  city manager attitudes and actions 

 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  nov./dec.2000 
<br/><br/> With the aim of helping move research from rhetoric to empirical reality, this article reports results of a national survey of city managers on attitudes towards and actions taken to implement principles of reinventing government. A large majority of managers support key principles of reinvention. A smaller proportion of managers has taken actions to recommend adoption of reinvention programs in their budget proposals to council. Managers' action-taking is influenced by certain characteristics of city managers, their communities, and their governments, including managers' attitudes and experiences, slack resources, and region.