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    Selections from The Municipal Year Book: On Innovative Practices
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    Selections from The Municipal Year Book: On Innovative Practices

    By James H. Svara and Karen Thoreson

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    Selections from The Municipal Year Book: On Innovative Practices contains facts, figures, and research-based articles on management trends and intergovernmental relations: (1) Award-Winning Innovations in 2011: Exploring the Boundaries of Transformation and (2) Recurrent Themes in Local Government Innovation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherICMA Publishing
    Release dateApr 4, 2014
    ISBN9780873265539
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    Selections from The Municipal Year Book: On Innovative Practices
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    James H. Svara

    James H. Svara is a professor of public affairs at Arizona State University and the director of the Center for Urban Innovation. He specializes in local government leadership, management, and ethics. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the board of the Alliance for Innovation, and an honorary member of ICMA, and he has served on the ICMA Strategic Planning Committee. His book More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America’s Large Cities, coedited with Douglas Watson, was recently published by Georgetown University Press.

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