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AbstractA life history and character protrait of "Cowboy Jim," champion long–distance mayor. How does he do it?

For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job – that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974.

AbstractThe enfant terrible of Joplin moves to St. Louis, becomes the tempestuous presidetn of the police board and at 36 years of age is elected mayor of the city.

The first Asian Mayors' Forum was held in Cebu in the Philippines in December 1998. It was a gathering of 10 mayors and had three sponsors, namely, the ADB Institute, ADB, and the Municipal Council of Cebu. At this Asian Mayors' Forum in Colombo 73 participants, representing ten countries, 31 cities, and over 100 million residents attended. This Forum was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank Institute, the Asian Development Bank, Colombo Municipal Council, Colombo Plan Secretariat, GTZ, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, U S Agency for International Development-RUDO, U S Asia Environmental Partnership Program, and Urban Management Programme (UNDP/UNCHS). The increased participation of city leaders and sponsors in the Colombo Forum was indicative of the growing need for exchange of information and experiences on urban governance and a search for a mechanism for fostering networking among cities in Asia. Thus, from Cebu to Colombo, the Asian Mayors Forum has clearly established itself as a platform for interaction among city leaders of Asia.

This book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US and Australasia.

AT A TIME WHEN THE PLIGHT OF AMERICA'S CITIES SEEMS NEARLY HOPELESS, THREE NEW-STYLE, BIG-CITY MAYORS HAVE EMERGED WHO BELIEVE THAT MOST OF THE ANSWERS TO URBAN PROBLEMS BEGIN AT HOME, NOT IN WASHINGTON. THIS TRIO--ED RENDELL OF PHILADELPHIA, STEPHEN GOLDSMITH OF INDIANAPOLIS, AND JOHN NORQUIST OF MILWAUKEE--IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO REVERSE THE FLOW OF FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES FROM THEIR CITIES. THEIR IDEAS MERIT THE ATTENTION OF OTHER MAYORS.

Black mayors face problems that are fundamentally different from those faced by white mayors because they must contend with constraints on their capacity for leadership not common to big city mayors generally. The heart of their dilemma is that they are, on the one hand, pressured by expectations of high performance, but on the other, handicapped in their ability to live up to these expectations by social, economic, and political factors that rob them of the resources and power they need to be successful in their roles. This paper examines the implications of this dilemma for effective black mayoral leadership. Suggestions are made for steps that might be taken to strengthen the leadership role of black mayors.

Based on a survey of 105 municipal governments, 1984; US. Examines community-oriented policing, minority recruitment, responses to public disorder incidents, and other policy indicators.

In many European countries mayors are local political leaders. Dutch mayors, however, are neither local nor political, as national government appoints them. Their office is subject to serious changes. While it still carries a lot of 'natural' authority, its content has changed rather drastically. In this article, the researchers first of all give an overview of the mayoral office in Western Europe and sketch the Dutch mayorship. The next step is to discuss recent developments: councils gaining influence on the actual mayoral selection, mayors getting more legal capacities and responsibilities, and society demanding stronger leadership. They will explore the ways present mayors cope with the emerging tensions between these developments, and between the responses to them. The focus is on tensions between the various developments and the risks the mayorship runs. Adapted from the source document.

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.