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Title The European mayor : political leaders in the changing context of local democracy / Henry Bäck, Hubert Heinelt, Annick Magnier (eds.)
Edition 1. Aufl
Published Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations
Series Urban and rgeional research international ; v. 10
Urban and rgeional research international ; v. 10
Contents Typologies of Local Government Systems -- 'From the Few are Chosen the Few ... ' On the Social Background of European Mayors -- The Mayor's Political Career -- Gendered Roads to Mayorship in Different Welfare States -- Does Recruitment Matter? Selecting Path and Role Definition -- Mayors, Citizens and Local Democracy -- Aspects of Leadership Styles: An Interaction of Context and Personalities -- Urban Systems as Growth Machines? Mayors' Governing Networks against Global Indeterminacy -- Mayors in Vertical Power Relations -- Divided Loyalties? Mayors between Party Representation and Local Community Interests -- Duo or Duel? The Relations between Mayors and Councils in Democratic Local Government -- Mayors and Local Administrators: A Puzzling Relationship -- Political Complexity or Managerial Simplicity? Mayoral Norms of Organisational Leadership -- European Mayors and Administrative Reforms -- Strong Mayors? On Direct Election and Political Entrepreneurship
Summary With this book we aim at describing and analysing the selection, daily life, networks and values of local top political leaders in seventeen European countries. The empirical nourishment to the investigation into town halls across Europe is a survey conducted in 2003 with mayors and corresponding top local political leaders. The data covering responses from 2700 leaders is a unique and rich material allowing descriptions and analyses pursuing a number of lines of inquiry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Municipal government -- Europe
Local government -- Europe
Mayors -- Europe
Political leadership -- Europe
Local government -- Europe.
Mayors -- Europe.
Political leadership -- Europe.
Municipal government -- Europe.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Local government
Mayors
Municipal government
Political leadership
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Bäck, Henry
Heinelt, Hubert
Magnier, Annick
ISBN 3531145746
9783531145747
9783531900056
3531900056
1281107832
9781281107831
9786611107833
6611107835