Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice
David Sweeting
Abstract
This book is about directly elected mayors; political leaders who are elected directly by citizens to head multi-functional local government authorities. The book examines the contexts, features and debates around the model, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from the 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 govern ... More
This book is about directly elected mayors; political leaders who are elected directly by citizens to head multi-functional local government authorities. The book examines the contexts, features and debates around the model, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from the 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 model. The work draws on a variety of sources, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches, to build a picture of views of and on mayors in different contexts from across the globe.
Keywords:
directly elected mayors,
urban governance,
leadership,
cities,
local government,
mayors
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447327011 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447327011.001.0001 |
