@article{KuhlmannSeyfriedBrajnik2017,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine and Seyfried, Markus and Brajnik, Irena Baclija},
  title     = {Mayors and administrative reforms},
  series = {Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy},
  journal   = {Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy},
  publisher = {Palgrave},
  address   = {Basingstoke},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-67410-0},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_13},
  pages     = {387 -- 409},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In recent decades, a wave of administrative reforms has changed local governance in many European countries. However, our knowledge about differences as well as similarities between the countries, driving forces, impacts, perceptions, and evaluation of these reforms is still limited. In the chapter, the authors give an overview about mayors' perceptions and evaluations of two major reform trajectories: (a) re-organisation of local service delivery and (b) internal administrative/managerial reforms. Furthermore, differences between (groups of) countries as well as similarities among them are shown in these two fields of administrative reform. Finally, the authors tried to identify explanatory factors for specific perceptions of administrative reforms at the local level.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HeineltHlepasKuhlmannetal.2017,
  author    = {Heinelt, Hubert and Hlepas, Nikos and Kuhlmann, Sabine and Swianiewicz, Pawel},
  title     = {Local Government Systems},
  series = {Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy},
  journal   = {Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy},
  publisher = {Palgrave},
  address   = {Basingstoke},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-67410-0},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_2},
  pages     = {19 -- 78},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {This chapter looks for main differences among local government systems as well as similarities among them. This has been done by the authors with the aim to grasp the institutional setting in which mayors have to act. The authors did it by updating and extending existing typologies and indices of local government systems. Nevertheless, an extension was first of all necessary with respect to vertical power relations because previous typologies considering them took neither the local government systems in Eastern and Central Europe nor the changes in the Western part of the continent into account. Furthermore, reflections about typologies are extended to the present one on public administration at the municipal level. All this have been underpinned by statistical data, the recent work on a 'Local Autonomy Index' (LAI; see Ladner et al. Measuring Autonomy in 39 Countries (1990-2014), Regional and Federal Studies, 26, 321-357, 2016) and information collected by the partners involved in the survey.},
  language  = {en}
}