Creator/Principal investigator(s)
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
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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 a
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Swedish
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University of Gothenburg, School of Public AdministrationData contains personal data
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Unit of analysis
Population
Mayors and corresponding top local political leaders in charge of local authorities with more than 10.000 inhabitants.
Time Method
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Time period(s) investigated
2002-12-01–2004-07-01
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Austria
Research area
Working conditions, Government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Political Science
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Bäck, H., Heinelt, H., & Magnier, A. (2006). The European Mayor : Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy. Urban and Regional Research International, Volume 10. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN-10 3-531-14574-6. ISBN-13 978-3-531-14574-7.
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9783531145747
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https://doi.org/10.5878/002426
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
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
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323
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2711