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Mayors, Governance Coalitions, and Strategic Capacity: Drawing Lessons from Germany for Theories of Urban Governance
Author(s)Gissendanner, Scott
AbstractA comparison of two German cities responding in the 1980s to de industrialization directs our attention toward factors that explain how leaders build governance and strategic capacities: a “crisis” situation, higher level government aid, party ties and low party competition, solidarity, friendship, and momentum. Factors that do not explain variation in these cases include the formal resources of strong-mayor city charters and the existence of a governance coalition. Mayors are in a unique position to increase governance capacity through in formal means, and if they do, they often also increase strategic capacity. This effect is, however, short term at best.
IssueNo1
Pages44-77
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceUrban Affairs Review
VolumeNo40
PubDateSeptember 2004
ISBN_ISSN1078-0874


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