Exploring the limits of institutional change: The direct election of mayors in Western Europe

Autor: Jaume Magre, Xavier Bertrana
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Local Government Studies. 33:181-194
ISSN: 1743-9388
0300-3930
DOI: 10.1080/03003930701198557
Popis: The process of local institutional reform that different Western European countries underwent starting in the 1990s converged towards the direct election of mayors in Italy, England, Austria and Germany. Using a comparative analysis of those countries and including in it Belgium and the Netherlands (where the introduction of directly elected mayors is planned) and Greece and Portugal (with a long tradition of it), the article examines why countries with such different municipal traditions have tended towards the same institutional solution. The answer runs through the text implicitly: the institutional tradition of each country appears to have a greater capacity for explaining the outcome of the reform rather than isomorphism in the introduction of the direct election of mayors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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