Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance (eBook, ePUB)

Impact and Practice
Redaktion: Sweeting, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447327059
• Artikelnr.: 48054162

Autorenporträt

David Sweeting is a senior lecturer in urban studies at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Directly elected mayors in urban governance ~ David Sweeting
Part 1: UK perspectives; Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a
difference? ~ David Sweeting and Robin Hambleton; Assessing the directly
elected mayoral model in Bristol, England: An empirical investigation of
the contrasting definitions of the role of a directly elected mayor ~ Thom
Oliver; Do mayors make a difference? In their own words... ~ Howard Elcock;
Directly elected mayors: necessary but not sufficient to transform places?:
The case of Liverpool ~ Nicola Headlam and Paul Hepburn; Embracing social
responsibilities through local leadership: Comparing the experience of the
mayors of Bristol and Liverpool ~ Nasrul Ismail; Part 2: International
perspectives; The two worlds of elected mayors in the United States: What
type of mayor should cities choose? ~ James H. Svara; Popular leaders or
rats in the ranks?: Political leadership in Australian cities ~ Paul
Burton; Directly elected mayors in New Zealand: The impact of intervening
variables on enhanced governing capacity ~ Christine Cheyne; Directly
elected mayors in Germany: Leadership and institutional context ~ Björn
Egner; Breeding-ground for local non-partisanship, bonus for incumbents
Directly elected mayors in Poland ~ Adam Gendzwill and Pawel Swianiewicz;
Debating directly elected mayors in the Czech Republic: Political games and
missing expertise? ~ Petr Jüptner; Part 3: Comparative perspectives; New
and established mayoralties: Lessons for local governance in constructing
new political institutions: The English and Polish cases ~ Colin Copus,
Alasdair Blair, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Michael Dadd; Directly
elected mayors: a route to progressive urban leadership? ~ Robin Hambleton;
Conclusions and reflections ~ David Sweeting.