Heads of the Local State : Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800.

Heads of the Local State : Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800.

"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 k...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Garrard, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Municipal government > Europe > Case studies.
Local government > Europe.
Mayors > Europe > Case studies.
Local government.
Mayors.
Municipal government.
Europe.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter Introduction / John Garrard
  • chapter ONE English Mayors: What are they for? / John Garrard
  • chapter TWO The Scottish Provost Since 1800: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Leadership of 'Local Self-Government' / Irene Maver
  • chapter THREE Symbolism or Substance? The Mayoralty in Northern Ireland / Colin Knox
  • chapter FOUR The Mayoralty in the Republic of Ireland / Muiris MacCarthaigh Mark Callanan
  • chapter FIVE The End of French Mayors? / Olivier Borraz Emmanuel Négrier
  • chapter SIX The Impact of the German Occupation (1940-1944) on the Belgian and Dutch Mayoralty / Nico Wouters
  • chapter SEVEN Servants of the State, Agents of the Party, Representatives of the People: The German Mayoralty in the Twentieth Century / Anthony McElligott
  • chapter EIGHT The Mayoralty in Italy / James L. Newell
  • chapter NINE From Party and State Domination to Putin's 'Power Vertical': The Subjugation of Mayors in Communist and Post-Communist Russia / Cameron Ross
  • chapter TEN The Mayor in American Local Government / Benjamin A. Lloyd Donald F. Norris Thomas J. Vicino.

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