Sextons as public servants -- Cemeteries in everyday life -- Records management and deeds -- Cultural competency in cemetery management -- Dark tourism and the cemetery -- Empathy and beyond -- Cemetery potpourri -- Concluding remarks.

City managers' policy leadership has drawn great attention from scholars of public administration. However, what factors explain variation in managers' policy-making roles has not been systematically explored. This study investigates the mechanisms leading elected officials to defer to the...