This article analyses Spanish Mayors\u2019 perceptions on three areas of possible reforms that are currently on the local government agenda: re-scaling, amalgamations and metropolitanization. This study shows two main features: On the one hand, a relative homogeneity regarding may ors\u2019 perceptions of reforms and, on the other hand, a consistent difference in the mayors\u2019 ori entations from two groups of autonomous communities. The first ones acceded to the \u201cfast track\u201d decentralization process that unfolded in Spain since 1978, due to the pressure exerted by their political leaders; the second group acceded to autonomy in a later wave, equating the distribution of power in all the territories of the state. Specifically, it is found that homogeneity in responses is only apparent when the two groups of mayors are considered. Thus, those from \u201cfast track\u201d regions are more in favor of decentral ization towards their regions and structures of coordination or cooperation between levels of government than mayors in \u201cslow track\u201d autonomous communities. We conclude that, in a scenario of shared power and multilevel interdependence, fast-track mayors tend to protect more intergovernmental agreements that favor spaces where they can control the formulation of policies that affect them. Este art\u00edculo analiza la percepci\u00f3n de los alcaldes espa\u00f1oles en tres \u00e1reas de posibles reformas que actualmente est\u00e1n en la agenda del gobierno local: reordenaci\u00f3n, fusiones y creaci\u00f3n de gobiernos metropolitanos. Este estudio revela dos caracter\u00edsticas principales. Por un lado, una homogeneidad relativa de las posiciones de los alcaldes respecto a las reformas y, por otro, una diferencia consistente en las orientaciones de los alcaldes de alcaldes de dos grupos de comunidades aut\u00f3nomas. Las primeras accedieron al proceso de descentralizaci\u00f3n por la v\u00eda r\u00e1pida que se despleg\u00f3 en Espa\u00f1a a partir de 1978, debido a la presi\u00f3n ejercida por sus l\u00edderes pol\u00edticos; el segundo grupo accedi\u00f3 a la autonom\u00eda en una ola posterior, equiparando la distri buci\u00f3n del poder en todos los territorios del Estado. Espec\u00edficamente, se ha descubierto que la homogeneidad en las respuestas s\u00f3lo se aprecia cuando se consideran los dos grupos de alcaldes mencionados. As\u00ed, los de las regiones de la v\u00eda r\u00e1pida est\u00e1n m\u00e1s a favor de la descentralizaci\u00f3n hacia sus regiones y de estructuras de coordinaci\u00f3n o cooperaci\u00f3n entre niveles de gobierno que los alcaldes en las comunidades aut\u00f3nomas de la v\u00eda lenta. Concluimos que, en un escenario de poder compartido y de interdependencia multinivel, los alcaldes de la v\u00eda r\u00e1pida tienden a proteger m\u00e1s los acuerdos intergubernamentales que favo rezcan los espacios donde puedan controlar la formulaci\u00f3n de pol\u00edticas que los afectan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medir, L., Magre, J. y Tom\u00e0s M. (2018). Mayors\u2019 perceptions on local Government reforms and decentralization in Spain. Revista Espa\u00f1ola de Ciencia Pol\u00edtica, 46, 129-155. Doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21308\/recp.46.06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11166,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[434],"product_tag":[412],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grel-publicacio01-150x150.png",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grel-publicacio01.png",1200,1200,false]},"categories":["84"],"categories_names":{"84":{"name":"external","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/?taxonomy=product_type&term=external"}},"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}