Mayors in Action: Five Approaches to Urban Governance

From the table of contents:
Introduction
Current conceptions of the mayor
A new framework
Agenda setting
Network building and maintenance
Accomplishing tasks
Patterns of behavior: the identification of five types of mayor
Pattern dynamics: constructing a model of mayoral behavior
Atlanta: a case study in mayoral behavior
Successful and unsuccessful coalignment behavior
Pattern emergence
Pattern impact: rating the mayor's performance
Implications for social scientists: a coalignment model of administration
Implications for mayors
The future: some disturbing trends.