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摘要

" The Adoption and Abandonment of Council-Manager Government" by Cheon Geun Choi, Richard C. Feiock, and Jungah Bae uses event history analysis of 191 cities with populations of more than 30,000 over a 75-year period (1930-2005) to isolate adoption and abandonment trends in the council-manager form of government.The authors readily admit that "despite dozens of empirical studies, we lack a systematic understanding of these forces over time because previous work has relied on cross-sectional designs or analysis of change over short periods." I am pleased that the authors note that "this article begins to fill this lacuna" (emphasis added) using the aforementioned event history analysis.