The authors examine the strengthening of local political and administrative leadership facing the reforms of local government in most European countries. The importance of how executive power is organised at the local level is related to the issues of where power (authority) is located, who is exercising it, and who decides on what. In this context, the authors analyse in an international environment already established typologies of horizontal relations between local authorities. Local management is examined as a political institution that at the intersection of formal and informal rules provides a framework through which we can understand the operation and identification of the various actors in political processes at the local level.
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