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What a difference a Mayor makes. A case study of the Liverpool Mayoral model

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  • Nicola Headlam
  • Paul Hepburn

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The city region devolution deals have ushered Directly Elected Mayors (DEMs) to the front and centre of the political and governance landscape within English metropolitan regions in the UK. DEMs are invested with high expectations to deliver a range of beneficial urban outcomes. Yet, there is little empirical evidence on the how such Mayoral leadership might act differently to other types of civic leadership to bring about these outcomes. This paper through the deployment of an innovative methodology, a diary analysis, examines how different this leadership model is when compared to its immediate predecessor; the council leader. It finds that the new Mayoral role is less about ‘city management’ and more about ‘city representation’ particularly on the national and international political stage. The paper concludes that this has implications for resourcing this particular leadership model and for the wider research agenda into political and executive leadership of our cities.

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  • Nicola Headlam & Paul Hepburn, 2017. "What a difference a Mayor makes. A case study of the Liverpool Mayoral model," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(5), pages 731-751, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:43:y:2017:i:5:p:731-751
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2017.1333429
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