Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
Title | Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Heinelt |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 2017-12-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319674102 |
This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political priorities, whether or not party politicization plays a role at the municipal level, and how mayors interact with other actors in the local political arena. This study addresses students, academics and practitioners concerned at different levels with the functioning and reforms of the municipal level of local government.
The European Mayor
Title | The European Mayor PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Bäck |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2007-10-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3531900056 |
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.
The European Mayor
Title | The European Mayor PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Bäck |
Publisher | VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2006-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9783531145747 |
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.
Bäck, Henry, Heinelt, Hubert, Magnier, Annick (eds.): The European Mayor. Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy
Title | Bäck, Henry, Heinelt, Hubert, Magnier, Annick (eds.): The European Mayor. Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Ryšavý |
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Pages | |
Release | 2009 |
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The Changing Context of Local Democracy
Title | The Changing Context of Local Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Heinelt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2016-02-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317632370 |
Political leadership at the local level has attracted growing attention in recent years in parallel with reforms of local government and of the municipal administration as well as the debate on a shift from government to governance. But this debate is mainly focused on single leaders, i.e. mayors or executive officers. Considering the power triangle of (i) the mayor, (ii) the municipal administration (executive officers) and (iii) the council, it is surprising that councillors have gained little interest so far. The aim of this book is to reflect on the role and task perception as well as the behaviour of councillors in the changing context of local democracy. The chapters start from a common conceptual framework. We start from the hypothesis that the role perception as well as the behaviour of councillors can not be conceived of being determined directly by (i) both formals and informal institutional structures as well as by (ii) personal characteristics. Instead, we argue that the perceptions and behaviour of councillors are depending on their notion of democracy. However, the understanding of democracy can be affected by institutional structure – but not solely by such organisational arrangements but depending on personal characteristics of the councillors. This book was published as a special issue of Local Government Studies.
Globalism and Local Democracy
Title | Globalism and Local Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | R. Hambleton |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2002-06-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230502741 |
This new book argues that cities and citizens are not helpless victims in a global flow of events. Three crucial questions are addressed through the three part structure: What is the nature of the globalization? What resulting challenges now confront cities and localities? How can local leaders respond to this changing environment in ways which strengthen local democracy? Written by leading urban scholars in Europe and North America the book draws on a range of disciplines to enhance academic understanding and illuminate lessons for policy and practice.
Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development
Title | Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Szücs |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2007-08-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3531901109 |
This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia. The findings show the importance of local political capital based on commitments to core democratic values, informal governance networks, and the significance of initially connecting the community to global, non-economic relationships.