Heads of the local state
Subtitle: mayors, provosts and burgomasters since 1800
By: edited by John Garrard
Contributors: Garrard, John
Series: Historical urban studies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780754652625
Subjects: Municipal government -- Europe -- Case studies; Local government -- Europe -- Case studies; Mayors -- Europe -- Case studies; Mayors -- United States
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: English mayors : what are they for? / John Garrard; title: The Scottish provost since 1800 : tradition, continuity and change in the leadership of 'local self-government' / Irene Maver; title: Symbolism or substance? : the mayoralty in Northern Ireland / Colin Knox; title: The mayoralty in the Republic of Ireland / Muiris MacCarthaigh and Mark Callanan; title: The end of French mayors? / Olivier Borraz and Emmanuel Négrier; title: The impact of the German occupation (1940-1944) on the Belgian and Dutch mayoralty / Nico Wouters; title: Servants of the state, agents of the party, representatives of the people : the German mayoralty in the twentieth century / Anthony McElligott; title: The mayoralty in Italy / James L. Newell; title: From party and state domination to Putin's 'power vertical' : the subjugation of mayors in communist and post-communist Russia / Cameron Ross; title: The mayor in American local government / Benjamin A. Lloyd, Donald F. Norris and Thomas J. Vicino; title: Index