TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Seyfried, Markus
A1  - Brajnik, Irena Baclija
T1  - Mayors and administrative reforms
JF  - Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
N2  - 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.
KW  - New public management
KW  - Local administrative systems
KW  - Administrative reform
KW  - Public-private partnerships
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 978-3-319-67410-0
SN  - 978-3-319-67409-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67410-0_13
SP  - 387
EP  - 409
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  -