1 - Local Political Leadership - Mayors and Beyond

Abstract

This panel focuses on local political leadership. More in particular the extent to which patterns of leadership have changed in relation to local government reform. Whereas a more general strengthening of executive leadership has occured in many contexts (exemplified by institutional shifts towards a more direct election and/or the de-collectivisation of the executive), wider changes are occuring with regard to the recruitment and career development, tasks, political agendas, styles and relations with other key actors in local governance. The focus lays on the figure of the mayor but is concerned with wider local political leadership as an emergent property of local governance.

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