1st Edition
Heads of the Local State Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800
Edited By John Garrard
Copyright 2007
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; English mayors: what are they for?, John Garrard; The Scottish provost since 1800: tradition, continuity and change in the leadership of 'local self-government', Irene Maver; Symbolism or substance? The mayoralty in Northern Ireland, Colin Knox; The mayoralty in the Republic of Ireland, Muiris MacCarthaigh and Mark Callanan; The end of French mayors?, Olivier Borraz and Emmanuel N ier; The impact of the German occupation (1940-1944) on the Belgian and Dutch mayoralty, Nico Wouters; Servants of the state, agents of the party, representatives of the people: the German mayoralty in the 20th century, Anthony McElligott; The mayoralty in Italy, James L. Newell; From party and state domination to Putin's 'power vertical': the subjugation of mayors in Communist and post-Communist Russia, Cameron Ross; The mayor in American local government, Benjamin A. Lloyd, Donald F. Norris and Thomas J. Vicino; Index.
Biography
John Garrard is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, at the University of Salford, UK.
