In the last two decades number of women involved in politics locally and nationally has increased.  Nevertheless, there is limited empirical work investigating increase female candidates for position mayor. To fill this gap literature, we conducted interviews with 57 72 mayor Israel before October 2018 elections, 37 after election. addition, interviewed 11 male men elected as mayors el...

The effects of climate change are multidimensional. In their jurisdictions, Mayors faced with managing a process that involves serious transformations such as zero emission, sustainable and clean energy, water management, safe food, disaster-crisis plans on the one hand, developing just policies will ensure transition support social development other. this study, Mayors’ approaches to vulnerabi...

For years scientists have urged national leaders to tackle climate change, based on the assumption that prevention efforts would require the coordinated actions of entire nations to be effective. But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gas...

Abstract This article argues that post-Soviet mayors are foreign policy actors deserve more attention from area studies and analysis scholars. Mayors have their own diplomatic preferences goals – rooted in geopolitical ethnonationalist views they can enact using city hall institutions networks. They work either harmony or opposition with central authorities by bolstering compromising the execut...

Two research questions structure this article: 1) what climate change policies have been formulated by Danish municipalities? and 2) why is there such a huge variation in the scope and ambition of these policies? In answering the first question it is demonstrated that climate change action plans have been developed and integrated into many Danish local governments' plans as a result of climate ...

Abstract Although mayors can have important impacts on citizens’ daily lives, local politics remains understudied, especially compared with national and regional politics. This study focuses Canadian mayors’ digital political gender performance—or self-presentation—on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram the context in which this gendered performance arises. Overall, results confirm that performances a...