This is a comparative analysis of mayors, council members, department heads and party leaders in 55 middle-sized cities in the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands. The book provides a picture of local leaders' political and social backgrounds, their perceptions of problems, their political values and their past and current experience in mobilizing support for their policies.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-8133-8880-9 (9780813388809)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The comparative study of local political elites; social and political backgrounds; the problem environments of cities as perceived by elites; elite perceptions of conflicts in their communities; elite influence perceptions - differential patterns and structures; the political contacts of local elites; the political values of local elites; path models of community-effective action using elite data - an exploratory approach; comparative perspectives on local leadership in Western democracies - concluding observations.
