Local public authorities have traditionally been an area for experimenting with reforms of varying impact for the overall institutional framework. In implementing these reforms, a prominent part has been taken by mayors in their role as the highest-ranking officials in their organisations. This article reports evidence for, and reflects on, the connection between the figure of the Spanish mayor (in the way mayors perceive their own role) and their relations with both the municipal governments they head and the processes of transformation to which these governments are exposed. Based on data obtained from the project entitled \u201cPolitical Leaders in European Cities\u201d, concerned with identifying mayors’ attitudes towards several aspects of local government, this article develops its argument in two stages. In the first stage, we describe the profiles of Spanish mayors, with a prime focus on how they perceive their functions and the importance they attach to their role as managers of the local authority. In the second stage, we analyze the connection between these perceptions and the relations the mayors establish with the local authority (that is, the relations between politicians and public executives and governmental employees). Finally, based on the classifications made, the posi tions taken up by mayors in relation to various processes of government reform are deter mined. The conclusions allow for various scenarios of administrative reform to be established based on the degree of involvement of the respective mayors, and they also point to further lines of research. Las Administraciones p\u00fablicas locales han sido tradicionalmente un espacio de experimenta ci\u00f3n de reformas de diverso calado en cuanto a su incidencia en el marco institucional general. En la puesta en pr\u00e1ctica de estas reformas, los alcaldes han desempe\u00f1ado un papel destacado como responsables de mayor rango en sus organizaciones. El art\u00edculo aporta evidencias y reflexiona sobre la conexi\u00f3n entre la figura del alcalde espa\u00f1ol (en la forma en que ellos conci ben su propio papel) y sus relaciones tanto con el Gobierno municipal que dirige como con los procesos de transformaci\u00f3n a los que dichos gobiernos est\u00e1n expuestos. A partir de los datos obtenidos del proyecto \u00abL\u00edderes pol\u00edticos en ciudades europeas\u00bb sobre percepciones de los alcaldes respecto de varios aspectos del gobierno local, este art\u00edculo desarrolla su argumento en dos estadios. En el primer estadio identificamos los perfiles de los alcaldes espa\u00f1oles atendiendo especialmente a c\u00f3mo perciben su rol y a la importancia que otorgan a su actividad de direc ci\u00f3n de la autoridad local. En el segundo estadio analizamos la conexi\u00f3n entre estas percepcio nes y las relaciones que establecen los alcaldes con la autoridad local (es decir, las relaciones entre pol\u00edticos y directivos y empleados p\u00fablicos). Por \u00faltimo, y a partir de las clasificaciones realizadas, se determinan las posiciones adoptadas por los alcaldes en relaci\u00f3n con diferentes procesos de reforma del Gobierno. Las conclusiones permiten establecer diversos escenarios de reforma administrativa basados en la implicaci\u00f3n de los respectivos alcaldes, y tambi\u00e9n se apuntan l\u00edneas de investigaci\u00f3n adicionales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Serna, M. S., & Puey, E. P. (2018). Mayors facing local government reforms: from muncipal organization leadership to public management transformation processes. Revista espa\u00f1ola de ciencia pol\u00edtica, (46), 103-127. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21308\/recp.46.05<\/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\/11956"}],"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=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/grel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}