Narratives on Complexity: Interpretations on Local Government Leadership Change
Narratives on Complexity: Interpretations on Local Government Leadership Change

Summary/Abstract: This article, based on narratives of experienced (born between 1945 and 1950) municipal chief executive officers, investigates changes that challenge leadership in local government. Four factors emerge: the dissolution of municipal boundaries; cooled relations between the State and municipalities; municipal inhabitants’ chang-ing role from participatory residents to exacting customers; and fragmentation of local politics. These four changes reveal the diversity of local leaders’ everyday environment, illustrating and exploring how day-to-day management takes place in the intersection of more and more complex governance relations.

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