Strengthening Local Political Leadership through Institutional Design: How and Why

Tina Øllgaard Bentzen; Christian Lo; Marte Winsvold

doi:10.1080/03003930.2019.1690994

Strengthening Local Political Leadership through Institutional Design: How and Why

Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Christian Lo, Marte Winsvold^*

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Abstract

Over recent decades, the institutions of political leadership have been criticised for being caught up in outdated designs that are not adapting to societal changes. In many western countries, this diagnosis has spurred design reforms aimed at strengthening political leadership at the local level. Based on a study of reforms in Norwegian and Danish municipalities, this article first develops a typology of reforms aimed at strengthening local political leadership. Leadership reforms are categorised into four types aimed at strengthening Executive, Collective, Collaborative, or Distributive political leadership. The typology is used to map the prevalence of the different types of reforms in the two countries. The results show that design reforms as such are more widespread in Danish than in Norwegian municipalities. In particular, reforms aimed at strengthening Distributive political leadership are used more extensively in Denmark than in Norway. The article discusses the contextual differences that may explain this variation.

Translated title of the contribution	Styrkelse af lokalt politisk ledersakb gennem institutionelt design: Hvorfor og Hvordan?
Original language	English
Journal	Local Government Studies
Volume	46
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	483-504
Number of pages	22
ISSN	0300-3930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2019.1690994
Publication status	Published - 3 May 2020

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Important note from the Publisher regarding the attached version of the article: “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Local Government Studies on 16 Nov 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03003930.2019.1690994.”

Keywords

Institutional design
Local government
Political leadership
Reforms

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Strenghtening political leadership - last draft before publication (002)Accepted author manuscript, 659 KBLicence: CC BY-NC-ND

POLEGO: Political Leadership in Local Governments
Sørensen, E. (Project participant), Torfing, J. (Project participant) & Bentzen, T. Ø. (Project participant)
01/07/2016 → 01/07/2018
Project: Research

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Strengthening Local Political Leadership through Institutional Design: How and Why

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POLEGO: Political Leadership in Local Governments

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