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New‐Style Councils, New‐Style Councillors: From Local Government to Local Governance
Author(s) -
BRUGUÉ QUIM,
VALLÈS JOSEP MARIA
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2005.00273.x
Subject(s) - local governance , catalan , local government , style (visual arts) , corporate governance , work (physics) , public administration , political science , government (linguistics) , management , humanities , economics , geography , mechanical engineering , philosophy , archaeology , engineering , linguistics
The aim of this article is to contrast an empirical study on the changes in the attitudes and behaviors of local politicians with recent literature on local governance. To undertake this task, the article brings together the results of about two hundred in‐depth interviews with local councillors from nine Catalan local councils over two different periods of time: 1986–1987 and 1998–1999. Through comparison with the results of the interviews carried out in the ’80s and ’90s, the work confirms a tendency toward change, which with a few slight adjustments, can be made to fit with those academic contributions that claim the appearance of certain strategic, pluralist, and relational styles of government.