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This book, now available in paperback, is the result of national research conducted amongst England’s directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them. It is the first such major publication to assess the impact on local politics of this new office and fills a gap in our understanding of how the Local Government Act 2000 has influenced local governance. The book also draws from a range of research that has focused on elected mayors - in England and overseas - to set out how the powers, roles and responsibilities of mayors and mayoral councils would need to change if English local politics is to fundamentally reconnect with citizens. It not only explores how English elected mayors are currently operating, but how the office could develop and, as such, is a major contribution to the debate about the governance of the English localities.

The first major publication to assess the impact on local politics of the new office of directly-elected mayor, now finally available in paperback.

This paper aims to investigate the effect of political turnover on corporate ESG performance in China. By analyzing data from Chinese A-share-listed companies between 2010 and 2020, we have discovered that changes in the municipal party committee secretary or the mayor of the prefecture-level city where a firm is located have a detrimental effect on corporate ESG performance. Compared with the change of the party committee, the change of mayor has a more pronounced negative impact on ESG performance. The reason behind this negative effect is primarily attributed to policy uncertainty, which leads to a decrease in governmental subsidies and an increase in ineffective under-investment by companies, consequently resulting in decreased corporate ESG performance. Furthermore, we have also observed that the adverse influence of political turnover on corporate ESG performance is relatively mitigated in SOEs, politically connected firms, and tertiary industries. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the relationship between political uncertainty and corporate behavior, particularly in emerging markets.

When things go wrong, and the government may be to blame, the public support enjoyed by elected executives is vulnerable. Because attribution of responsibility is often not straightforward, elected executives can influence citizens’ evaluations of their performance through presentational strategies, or explanatory frames which describe their roles in the management of the crisis. We examine the effectiveness of two ubiquitous presentational strategies: blame claiming, where the executive accepts responsibility, and blame deflecting, where the executive shifts blame to others. Using survey experiments incorporating stylised and real-world stimuli, we find that blame claiming is more effective than blame deflecting at managing public support in the aftermath of crises. In investigating the underlying mechanism, we find that blame claiming creates more favourable views of an executive’s leadership valence. While elected executives are better off avoiding crises, we find that when they occur, “stopping the buck” is a superior strategy to deflecting blame.

The aim of this study is to identify the factors influencing individuals’ satisfaction with municipal aid to the sick and the poor in Türkiye, using the microdata sets from the 2023 Life Satisfaction Survey conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) and analyzing them through a Stereotype Ordered Regression model. An examination of the model results reveals that the variables of age, marital status, education level, employment status, level of happiness, satisfaction with health, household size, social security status, and income level are statistically significant. The study reveals that as individuals age, the probability of being satisfied with municipal aid to the sick and the poor increases. On the other hand, the study shows that as the education level of individuals increases, the probability of being satisfied with such municipal aid decreases. In addition, individuals who are dissatisfied with their health are less likely to be satisfied with municipal aid to the sick and the poor compared to those who are very satisfied with their health.

Will voters hold an incumbent more electorally accountable for the quality of a policy outcome if the incumbent’s political responsibility for the underlying policy increases? To answer this question, this study exploits a reform of labor market regulation in Denmark that exogenously assigned more political responsibility for unemployment services to some municipal mayors. The study finds that in subsequent elections these mayors were held more electorally accountable for unemployment services, but not more accountable for other policy outcomes. This suggests that the relationship between political responsibility and electoral accountability is causal, adaptive and tied to specific policies. On balance, the electorate thus seems to be quite judicious when assigning electoral credit or blame, moderating the extent to which incumbents are held accountable for specific outcomes based on the extent to which these incumbents crafted and implemented the policies that shaped these outcomes.

Objetivo: Determinar la relación de las características personales con la calidad de vida en adultos mayores cuidadores de nietos del norte y suroeste de México. Métodos: Descriptivo-correlacional y comparativo, con una muestra de 326 adultos mayores cuidadores de nietos, recolectado mediante muestreo a conveniencia y que cumpla con los criterios de inclusión. Se aplicó una cedula de datos personales y la escala de Calidad de Vida Autopercibida en Adultos Mayores en Comunidad (a=0.93). Los datos se analizaron con estadística descriptiva e inferencial como pruebas de U de Mann-Whitney, Chi cuadrada y Spearman. Contó con la aprobación del Comité de ética, acatándose los reglamentos nacionales e internacionales. Resultados: La población tuvo una de M=68.56 años, siendo el 54.9% hombre y el 45.1% mujer, con una de M=9.10 horas del cuidado del nieto. Se halló asociación de la calidad de vida con la zona geográfica de México (Chi=35.695, p<0.05). Se observó relación de la edad (r=-0.155) y el número de hijos (r=-0.279) con la calidad de vida. Conclusiones: Se observó que, a mayor edad y número de hijos, menor calidad de vida. De igual manera, la calidad de vida se asocia con la zona geográfica. Se recomienda prestar atención en la salud física, psicológica y social de este grupo vulnerable.

This study describes the concept of corporate reputation and reviews some of the major points that exist when it comes to measuring it. It thus suggests a new index for measurement and its advantages and disadvantages are pointed out. The consistency of the seven key variables for the collecting indicator is described by the results of a factor analysis and correlations. Finally, the indicator is put to test by gathering the perception of corporate reputation of 1500 individuals for 69 companies belonging to 15 different industrial sectors, in Peru. The results indicate that the proposed index variables are not necessarily of greatest interest to the study sample in which companies have a better performance. Also greater memorial companies aren't necessarily those that enjoy a greater corporate reputation. Managerial implications for the organizations in the process of managing and monitoring the dimensions involved of this key asset are also referenced.

Background: During times of crisis, mayors may play an important role as public leaders and providers of social support to affected residents. However, empirical studies have not yet been conducted among the involved mayors about the support they provide and the factors associated with it. Objective: The aim is to examine the support the mayors provided to the affected residents during crises and to test the possible determinants of this support. Method: A web-based survey developed for this study, including a modified version of the Social Support Survey, was filled by 266 Dutch mayors (response = 66.5%), of whom 231 were involved in at least one crisis in their community in the past five years. We examined the association between the perceived support provided by the mayors and their years of experience, demographics, municipality size, and assessment of the collective impact of the crisis and their own political responsibility. Moreover, we tested the probability of mayoral home visits based on the same factors as well as loss of life. Results: All of the involved Dutch mayors reported providing support, which varied from lending a listening ear to discussing public ceremonies and remembrances with the affected and their families. The mayors' age, sex, municipality size, and years of experience were not significantly related to the perceived social support provision or willingness to reach out to affected citizens. Apart from fatalities linked to the crisis, none of the factors tested had a significant effect on the probability of mayors making home visits. Conclusion: Mayors are likely to report positively on how they provided social support to residents during crises regardless of the factors considered. Mayors are most likely to conduct home visits in situations where one or more citizens died. Further validation and replication of the social support measurement instrument is needed. * We examined the provision of social support and used a mirrored version of the 20-item Social Support Survey.* Mayors provide support to the residents of the community who are affected by crises.* Mayors pay home visits to the affected in the aftermath of crises.* Mayors' age, sex, municipality size, and years of experience are not significantly related to their self-perceived provision of social support.* Mayors are most likely to conduct home visits when one or more citizens of the community died during a crisis.

In June 2012, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his plans for a ban on the sale of sugary beverages in containers larger than 16 ounces. Shortly thereafter, the Center for Consumer Freedom took out a full-page ad in the New York Times featuring Bloomberg photo-shopped into a matronly dress with the tag line “New Yorkers need a Mayor, not a Nanny.” On television, the CATO Institute's Michael Cannon declared, “This is the most ridiculous sort of nanny state-ism; [i]t’s none of the mayor's business how much soda people are drinking.” And in newspapers around the country, editorial pages featured headlines such as “Gulp! Yet Another Intrusion of the Nanny State.” Just like that, the public debate about this measure became focused on government overreach, while the public health problem of obesity (and of overconsumption of soda in particular) faded into the background.