Interest groups reside within the jurisdiction of a local government. Most of them are concerned about administrative processes in city halls. They are eager to get benefits from city halls, and in order to have strong influence over these processes. They think that their interests should be reflected in the administrative processes. However, the interest groups are in serious conflict each oth...

Recently, more and more cities and regions are increasing their interest in sustainability, specifically on the issues related to climate change. Clear evidence is the big amount of European cities (576, in July 2009), which have already joined the Covenant of Mayors. The Covenant of Mayors is a voluntary agreement to fight against climate change at municipal level, with which the signatory cit...

This paper studies how mayors engage with citizens, public managers and politicians across the policy cycle specifically in four local governance processes: agenda setting, decision-making, services design delivery. Drawing from a survey of 1,067 Italian mayors, we identify clusters engagement: Centralized Leadership, Semi-Inclusive Conventional Leadership Multi-Actor Leadership. We find that s...

Women occupy leadership positions at all levels of government. While the topic has been extensively investigated and referred to national legislatures, other venues remain under-researched. By focusing on mayoral office, this article aims contributing fill research gap regarding local government arena specifically executive positions. Drawing a survey around 2,600 European mayors, study investi...

This is a paper about how organized crime and politicians interact, and the way in which political institutions impact this relationship. In this paper, I explore corruption interactions between the Mexican government and drug traffickers, and the way in which federalism affects the price and number of bribes, and ultimately the incentives that traffickers have to be violent. Based in an extens...

The Hungarian municipal elections of October 2019 were the first ray hope for numerous political forces aiming to topple decade-long Fidesz rule. In this election, opposition won Budapest's mayoral seat and 10 23 larger cities (turning 8). They also majorities in capital's assembly among district mayors 10). This was possible through unprecedented coordination all viable parties, electoral inno...

Can research findings change political leaders’ beliefs and policies? We use experiments with 2,150 Brazilian municipalities to measure mayors’ demand for response information. In one experiment, we find that mayors are willing pay learn the results of evaluation studies, update their when informed findings. They value larger-sample studies more, while not distinguishing between in rich poor co...