The roles councillors play

Pieter J. Klok; Sebastianus A.H. Denters

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-01857-3_4

The roles councillors play

Pieter J. Klok
, Sebastianus A.H. Denters

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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Abstract

Local councillors find themselves in an interesting position in local government. In the traditional model of representative democracy, the council is pivotal in an electoral chain of command (Dearlove 1973). On the one hand they are elected to represent the citizens in their municipality, transforming citizens’ preferences into local policy (Denters 2005). Here the main task of the councillor is to ensure responsiveness vis-à-vis the local citizens (De Groot, Denters and Klok 2010). On the other hand they have to make sure that actors in other positions in local government (the executive and the administration) act in accordance with the citizens’ preferences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Local councillors in Europe
Editors	Björn Egner, David Sweeting, Pieter-Jan Klok
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Publisher	Springer
Pages	63-83
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-658-01857-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-658-01856-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01857-3_4
Publication status	Published - 2013

Publication series

Name	Urban and regional research international
Publisher	Springer
Volume	14

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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IR-85297

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The roles councillors play

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