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Rela Tionships between Governing Boards and Professional Staff

Role Orientations and Influence on the California Coastal Commission

University of California, Davis

Daniel Mazmanian

Pomona College

This paper examines two critical aspects of the relationship between part-time policy boards andfull-time professional staff: (1) the views of each group toward the proper role of staff and (2) the respective influence of commissioners and staff. The results from a study offour land-use regulatory agencies suggest that the amount of congruence between the two groups on substantive policy issues is the dominant factor affecting their relationship and that commissioners are quite able to establish the general policy orientation of their institutions.

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