Mayors and Political Parties

摘要: The chapter takes a view, from different perspectives, at the results of an analysis relationship between mayors and political parties local level. First, it shows how mayor assesses her/his ideology parties. This has been done both for with party membership and—even more importantly—for non-partisan mayors. Second, is reflected in respect to Party Significance Index developed by authors compared similar index Fallend et al. (Divided Loyalties? Mayors Between Representation Local Community Interests. In H. Back, Heinelt, & A. Magnier (Eds.), European Mayor: Political Leaders Changing Context Democracy. VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2006) analysing data collected first survey. Third, looks question whether or not determined government systems, other structural variables (like population size municipality), personal characteristics