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

ISBN-13: 9780815389422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str.

John Garrard

Opis

Through a comparative analysis of mayoralty since 1800, this volume explores the characteristics of the office in relation to such issues as the constitutional position of mayors, their ceremonial and executive roles, their representational status in relation to local, regional and central authority, and their public visibility, which at various times has been used to highlight or blur issues of race, gender, politics or religion within a community.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

John Garrard is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, at the University of Salford, UK.