Comparing elected mayors

Mayors, Partisanship, and Redistribution: Evidence Directly From U.S. Mayors

Policymakers and scholars are increasingly looking to mayors as policy innovators capable of addressing critical challenges, including income inequality. A robust scholarly debate contests whether mayors are (1) limited by economic constraints and unable to prioritize redistributive initiatives, or (2) spurred to pursue equity-oriented policies according to partisan and ideological preferences....

Elected officials.

Segal Democratically elected aristocracies

The article suggests a formalmodel of a two-tier voting procedure,which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived to have w...

Democratically Elected Aristocracies

The article suggests a formal model of a two-tier voting procedure, which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived as havi...

Elected FRS 1976