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The European mayor - Political leaders in the changing context of local democracy

https://doi.org/10.5878/002426
Major structural changes have been taking place in European local government systems around the turn of the millennium. Changes that have already had substantial consequences for local political leadership and are likely to bring about further change in the future. A number of such restructuring trends are sweeping over the continent, but from different starting points, at varying pace and in various mixed configurations. The research was designed to assess how, by playing on these different contexts, the restructuring trends and reforms inscribed in the wider framework of increasing global exchanges impact on the concept and praxis of political representation at local level. Four different trends of change are in focus: structural transformations in terms of privatisation, contracting out and general mimicry of private sector institutional arrangements ('New Public Management'); changes in central-local relations, most often in form of decentralisation, whereby new tasks have been allocated to the local level; the importance of political parties; internal institutional arrangements of local authorities. Central topics in the study are recruitment processes, perspectives on democracy, leadership styles, networks, intergovernmental relations, the importance of the party system and horizontal power relations in the local government organization.
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  • Henry Bäck - University of Gothenburg - School of Public Administration
  • Rikke Berg - University of Southern Denmark - Department of Political Science
  • David Sweeting - University of the West of England - Faculty of the Built Environment
  • Vicki Johansson - University of Gothenburg - School of Public Administration
  • Folke Johansson - University of Gothenburg - Department of Political Science
  • David Karlsson - University of Gothenburg - School of Public Administration
  • Franz Fallend - University of Salzburg - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Herwig Reynaert - Ghent University - Department of Political Science
  • Kristof Steyvers - Ghent University - Department of Political Science
  • Zdenka Vajdová - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Michal Illner - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Ulrik Kjaer - University of Southern Denmark - Department of Political Science
  • Eric Kerrouche - Sciences Po Bordeaux
  • Hubert Heinelt - Technical University of Darmstadt - Department of Political Science
  • Björn Egner - Technical University of Darmstadt - Department of Political Science
  • Michael Haus - Technical University of Darmstadt - Department of Political Science
  • Nikos Hlepas - National University, Athens - Department of Political Science and Public Administration
  • Panagiotis Getimis - Panteion University, Athens - Department for Regional Economy and Development
  • Gabor Soós - Tocqueville Research Center, Budapest
  • Gyorgyi Ignits - Tocqueville Research Center, Budapest
  • Paula Russell - University College Dublin - School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy
  • Annick Magnier - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Pippo Russo - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Chiara Zanoccoli - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Giovanna Cutrone - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Irene Borselli - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Nicola Malloggi - University of Florence - Department of Political Science and Sociology
  • Clemente J. Navarro Yanez - Pablo de Olavide University of Seville - Social Work and Social Services
  • Bas Denters - Department of Political Science and Research Methods - Politicologie en Onderzoeksmethoden
  • Harry Daemen - Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Pawel Swianiewicz - Warsaw University - Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
  • Manuel da Silva e Costa - Minho University
  • José Pinheiro Neves - Minho University
  • Jean Dominique Ackle - Minho University
  • Carlos Alba - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Department of Political Science
  • Carmen Navarro - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Department of Political Science
  • Daniel Kübler - Zurich University - Institute of Political Science
  • Pascal Michel - University of Lausanne - Institute for Political and International Studies

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