If mayors are the answer then what was the question?

Local Government Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 331-344

  Orr, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; LEADERSHIP; MODERNIZATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11144323820     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0300393042000310426     Document Type: Article

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