20.500.12556/RUL-154323 Depoliticization of governance in large municipalities in Europe The premise of our research paper is that large (by the size of the population) municipalities are more complex to govern and manage, and this, in turn, calls for a more professional and apolitical local government. Using data from the largest European survey of mayors, we analyzed the influence of mayors and chief administrative officers in Europe and checked for correlations with the size of the local government. We present empirical evidence to support that the perceived influence of mayors varies with the size of the municipality regardless of the institutional configuration of power relationships. We found that very large municipalities (80,000 or more inhabitants) had weaker mayors. The presumption that a larger, more complex local (urban) environment calls for more professional leadership has been addressed in numerous publications; however, the answer was usually beyond the reach of the empirical tests. chief administrative officer city size mayor Europe mesta lokalna samouprava župani politična odtujitev Evropa true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-02-07 09:23:31 2024-02-07 09:23:34 2025-08-08 13:31:17 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 Str. 774-789 iss. 2 Vol. 60 Mar. 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 352(4) 1078-0874 10.1177/10780874231165776 146836227 Baclija_et_al_UAR.pdf Baclija_et_al_UAR.pdf 1 CFBDC01D2E8447C3C6FFE52DECFF7791 c43fa772b788d958741f4213eb01cc9bfdf6e681113ed00a9ad9ff299fea9a06 8c00e05d-c592-11ee-8be4-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180672 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10780874231165776 0 9989e5eb-c592-11ee-8be4-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=180673 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0