Mayors, Governance Coalitions, and Strategic Capacity Drawing Lessons from Germany for Theories of Urban Governance  

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Gissendanner, Scott

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Urban Affairs Review vol. 40 no. 1 (Sep. 2004), page 44-77.
Topik: governance; leadership; Germany; urban politics; economic development; planning
Fulltext: 44UAR401.pdf (167.96KB)

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A comparison of two German cities responding in the 1980s to deindustrialization directs our attention toward factors that explain how leaders build governance and strategic capacities: a "crisis" situation, higher level government aid, party ties and low party competition, solidarity, friendship, and momentum.Factors that do not explain variation in these cases include the formal resources of strong-mayor city charters and the existence of a governance coalition. Mayors are in a unique position to increase governance capacity through informal means, and if they do, they often also increase strategic capacity. This effect is, however, short term at best.

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