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The social base and career development of Spanish mayors

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dc.contributor.authorNavarro, Carmen
dc.contributor.authorSanz, Alberto
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad
dc.contributor.rorhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T13:15:42Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T13:15:42Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe growing corpus of studies about political elites in Spain has tended to focus on national and regional parliaments and executives,rather than on the municipal level of government. And yet,it is in these local settings that politicians acquire skills and political experience,develop their notions of democracy,and often start their political careers. Exploring patterns of political recruitment in Spanish local democracies allows us to look at some of the literature findings on this topic and check whether they also apply at the municipal level in Spain,enhancing in this way our understanding of who governs our cities,too. This article analyzes Spanish mayors' social profiles,their patterns of professionalization and their political ambitions,trying to address questions such as: do municipal leaders share a common background? Are they amateurs or professionals in politics? Is the municipal level the first stage of an identifiable political career of Spanish representatives? In responding to these questions,this paper draws on survey data from a representative sample of 303 mayors in municipalities with populations larger than 10 000 inhabitants. The analysis confirms that Spanish mayors follow to a great extent the patterns found in studies of political elites and particularly those of local executives in other countries in Europe,but with some distinctive singularities. © Revista Española de Ciencia Política,2018.
dc.description.fundingtype2. This research has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness: «Una nueva arquitectura local: eficiencia
dc.description.fundingtypedimensión y democracia» (CSO213-48641-C2-1-R). CARMEN NAVARRO c.navarro@uam.es Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, where she focuses her research and teaching activities on local government and public policy. Her research has been published in international journals (International Review of Administrative Sciences, European Political Science, Public Administration Review or Local Government Studies) and in prestigious publishers (Palgrave MacMillan, Peter Lang, Routledge, Springer VS, Edward Elgar). Recently, she has been Principle Investigator in the research project “Efficiency, scale and democracy in local government” (“Una nueva arquitectura local: eficiencia, dimensión y democra-cia”) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2014-2017) analyzing changes in local institutions, political leadership and service provision in Spanish and European municipalities. She is a member of the Institute of Local Law at the UAM, where she is in charge of the series Annual Reports on Local Public Policies in the Region of Madrid.
dc.description.keywordLocal democracy
dc.description.keywordLocal government
dc.description.keywordMayors
dc.description.keywordPolitical leaders
dc.description.keywordPolitical recruitment
dc.description.keywordSpain
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dc.identifier.citationGómez, C. N., & Cazorla, A. S. (2018). The social base and career development of Spanish mayors. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, (46), 21-48.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21308/recp.46.02
dc.identifier.issn15756548
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3210
dc.issue.number46
dc.journal.titleRevista Espanola de Ciencia Politica
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final48
dc.page.initial21
dc.publisherAsociacion Espanola de Ciencia Politica y de la Administracion
dc.relation.departmentApplied Mathematics
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.projectIDMINECO: CSO213-48641-C2-1-R
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution 4,0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectLocal democracy; Local government; Mayors; Political leaders; Political recruitment; Spain
dc.subject.keywordLocal democracy
dc.subject.keywordLocal government
dc.subject.keywordMayors
dc.subject.keywordPolitical leaders
dc.subject.keywordPolitical recruitment
dc.subject.keywordSpain
dc.titleThe social base and career development of Spanish mayors
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