Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance
Impact and Practice
Author: Alasdair Blair, Paweł Swianiewicz, Christine Cheyne, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Colin Copus, Petr Jüptner, Adam Gendzwill, Paul Burton, James Svara and Nasrul Ismail
This book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.
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This book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.
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Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it.
The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages of the mayoral model.
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and planning.
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“"A timely and important book on a significant development in city governance and regional leadership; everything you need to know about directly elected mayors."”
Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick Business School, UK
About the Author
David Sweeting is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Bristol.
This book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, as interpreted by authors in several different countries, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.
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