Directly Elected Mayors In Urban Governance

Author : Sweeting, David
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447327047
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directly elected mayors in urban governance written by Sweeting, David and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Sweeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447327035
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance written by David Sweeting and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though mayors directly elected by the residents of a city are so commonplace as to go without comment in the United States and Canada, in many other countries, including England, Germany, and Hungary, they are a recent development, where they have been pitched as an effective, democratically accountable governing option. But is that actually true? Do directly elected mayors deliver better governance than the alternatives? This text presents the results of an in-depth study of that question and the role of the elected mayor in general, drawing on data from a large number of cities from around the world to show the wide range of policy approaches and outcomes that the position can entail.

Author : John Fenwick
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839096500
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Local Government written by John Fenwick and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors provides a critical assessment of the role occupied by directly elected mayors in the leadership of English local government. Built on original research and historical analysis, the book examines the impact of elected mayors upon public engagement, devolution and local leadership.

Author : Michael Haus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134289286
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Governance and Democracy written by Michael Haus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between leadership and community involvement , and discovers how making these two elements more complementary one to the other can lead to more effective as well as legitimate policy outcomes.

Author : David Sweeting
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447327012
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance written by David Sweeting and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though mayors directly elected by the residents of a city are so commonplace as to go without comment in the United States and Canada, in many other countries, including England, Germany, and Hungary, they are a recent development, where they have been pitched as an effective, democratically accountable governing option. But is that actually true? Do directly elected mayors deliver better governance than the alternatives? This book presents the results of an in-depth study of that question and the role of the elected mayor in general, drawing on data from a large number of cities from around the world to show the wide range of policy approaches and outcomes that the position can entail.

Author : Sean D. Foreman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317578937
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America written by Sean D. Foreman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the marathon on April 15. Detroit is roiled by being the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy, and Chicago, which had an open, competitive election in 2011, is dealing with significant gun violence. San Diego’s mayor resigned in August 2013 due to sexual harassment charges and other mayors are surrounded by corruption scandals. Houston and St. Louis had non-competitive elections recently but their mayors are notable for their tenure in office and emphasis will be on public policy outcomes in those cases. Leaders in most cities face dramatic changes and challenges due to economic and social realities. The Keys to City Hall offers a complete and succinct review and analysis of the top mayoral campaigns in major American cities in recent years as well as the politics and public policy management of those urban areas. Emerging theories of urban governance, demographic changes, and economic conditions are examined in introductory chapters; the introduction will provide a unique and comprehensive focus on major trends in advertisement, changes in campaign strategies, fundraising, and the use of social media at the local level. In Part Two, scholars with expertise in local politics, urban public policy, and the governance explore some of the largest and most noteworthy U.S. cities, each of which has a recent, competitive mayoral election. They will also provide updated data on mayoral powers and problems faced by local executives. Written as lively narratives in a highly readable style, this book advances theory on urban politics by reviewing developments in the field and aligning theoretical approaches with realities on the ground based on the most recent elections and governance structures. As such, it will be a much needed resource to scholars interested in local politics, and the public policy debates of specific major urban and metropolitan areas.

Author : John Garrard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351156705
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heads of the Local State written by John Garrard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understanding of the recruitment and socio-economic characteristics of municipal leadership and the exercise of power at a local level. However, much less is known about the highly important offices and office-holders standing at the ceremonial, political and executive head of towns and cities. Through a comparative analysis of mayoralty since1800, this volume explores the characteristics of the office in relation to such issues as the constitutional position of mayors, their ceremonial and executive roles, their representational status in relation to local, regional and central authority, and their public visibility, which at various times has been used to highlight or blur issues of race, gender, politics or religion within a community. Drawing on examples from contrasting national contexts in Eastern and Western Europe, and North America, and with contributions from both historians and political scientists, this book will be welcomed as an important step in providing a much fuller international picture of the development and nature of urban governance.

Author : James H. Svara
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589017099
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Mayor Or Manager written by James H. Svara and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Mayor or Manager offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of governmentùthe causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. --

Author : Mark R. Montgomery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134031661
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities Transformed written by Mark R. Montgomery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.

Author : Hubert Heinelt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319674102
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy written by Hubert Heinelt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political priorities, whether or not party politicization plays a role at the municipal level, and how mayors interact with other actors in the local political arena. This study addresses students, academics and practitioners concerned at different levels with the functioning and reforms of the municipal level of local government.