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The authors study 74 cities in 30 states to determine whether citizens in adapted cities are more likely to rate the quality of city services in the top category than are citizens in nonadapted cities. Contrary to the proposed hypothesis, the authors find statistical support that citizens in the 16 administrative cities are more likely to rate the quality of city services in the top category than are citizens in the 52 adapted cities, controlling for important socioeconomic variables. This finding provides preliminary evidence that introducing political institutions and values or constraining the policy-making/executive role of the city manager in traditional council—manager cities can adversely impact service quality—at least from the perspective of citizens. |
