@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}
}