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 the identification of five types of mayor
Pattern constructing a model of mayoral behavior
a case study in mayoral behavior
Successful and unsuccessful coalignment behavior
Pattern emergence
Pattern rating the mayor's performance
Implications for social a coalignment model of administration
Implications for mayors
The some disturbing trends.