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Contents
one Introduction: directly elected mayors in urban governance
David Sweeting
two Mayoral governance in Bristol: has it made a difference?
David Sweeting and Robin Hambleton
three Can the directly elected mayor model deliver? Innovation, limitation and adaptation: lessons from the City of Bristol
Thom Oliver
four Do mayors make a difference? In their own words
Howard Elcock
five Directly elected mayors: necessary but not sufficient to transform places? The case of Liverpool
Nicola Headlam and Paul Hepburn
six Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool
Nasrul Ismail
seven The two worlds of elected mayors in the US: what type of mayor should cities choose?
James H. Svara
eight Popular leaders or rats in the ranks? Political leadership in Australian cities
Paul Burton
nine Directly elected mayors in New Zealand: the impact of intervening variables on enhanced governing capacity
Christine Cheyne
ten Directly elected mayors in Germany: leadership and institutional context
Bjrn Egner
eleven Breeding grounds for local independents, bonus for incumbents: directly elected mayors in Poland
Adam Gendwi and Pawe Swianiewicz
twelve Debating directly elected mayors in the Czech Republic: political games and missing expertise?
Petr Jptner
thirteen New and established mayoralties: lessons for local governance in constructing new political institutions the English and Polish cases
Colin Copus, Alasdair Blair, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Michael Dadd
fourteen Directly elected mayors: a route to progressive urban leadership?
Robin Hambleton
fifteen Conclusions and reflections
David Sweeting
List of tables and figures
Tables
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Notes on contributors
Alasdair Blair is Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is also Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of European Governance. His main areas of research and teaching are European Union politics, British foreign policy and student learning in higher education.
Paul Burton is Professor of Urban Management and Planning and Director of the Cities Research Centre at Griffith University, Australia. He is a founding member of Regional Development Australia, Gold Coast, and a member of the National Education Committee of the Planning Institute of Australia. In 200203 he chaired the Bristol Democracy Commission, which recommended the introduction of a directly elected mayor for the city of Bristol.
Christine Cheyne is an Associate Professor and leads the Resource and Environmental Planning programme at Massey University, New Zealand. She has carried out research on various aspects of local government including representation, participation, funding, political leadership, reorganisation, metropolitan governance and electoral systems. In 200607 she was a member of the NZ government-appointed Local Government Rates Inquiry.
Colin Copus is Professor of Local Politics and Director of the Local Governance Research Unit in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His academic interests are centrallocal relationships, local party politics, local political leadership and the changing role of the councillor. He has worked closely with policymakers and practitioners and has been an adviser to parliamentary select committees. He has published widely in academic journals.
Michael Dadd was a PhD student in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His PhD focused on local political leadership and he spent over a year working closely with Leicester City Council as the new office of elected mayor developed in the city. Michael sadly passed away in 2015.
Bjrn Egner is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Political Science at Technische Universitt Darmstadt, Germany. Bjrn chairs the research group Methodology and Philosophy of Science at the institute. His research interests include local politics, quantitative methodology, and policy analysis.
Howard Elcock was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hull and Head of the School of Government at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University), UK. He also taught at Fredonia State College, New York, USA. He wrote a textbook on Local Government and has published widely in the field.
Adam Gendwi is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He works at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Local Development and Policy. His research interests include local politics, electoral studies, political representation and party organisations.
Robin Hambleton is Emeritus Professor of City Leadership at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, and Director of Urban Answers. He was the Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (200207). His latest book is Leading the Inclusive City: Place-based Innovation for a Bounded Planet (Policy Press, 2015).
Nicola Headlam is an interdisciplinary urbanista whose work is on the governance, management and leadership of cities. She has followed concerns about implementation of policy in the subnational UK from working as a local government officer through a PhD within the Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS) at the University of Manchester; then post-doctorally at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice at the University of Liverpool. Since 2015 she has been a knowledge exchange fellow working within the Government Office for Science and the Urban Transformations portfolio at the University of Oxford.
