Being a mayor: the view from four Colombian cities
Being a mayor: the view from four Colombian cities
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担任市长：哥伦比亚四个城市的观点
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2009
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J. Dávila
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J. Dávila
地方政府管理着直接影响生活质量的基础设施和服务，与人们的日常生活尤其相关。与中央任命的市长或由其他议员选举的市长相比，民选市长往往更能满足贫困多数人的需求。哥伦比亚的市政市长自1988年以来一直由选举产生，地方政府被赋予了更多的责任和权力来增加地方收入。在这篇文章中，四位市长在四年任期结束时，用他们自己的话来说，反思了他们在塑造自己的市政当局方面所发挥的作用。他们讲述了他们个人对地方政治的参与，分享了他们对自己的社会和贫困、不平等和暴力等问题的看法，描述了管理地方政府和有时在困难情况下发挥领导作用的业务，反思了市长的素质，并解释了他们如何寻求政府方案的连续性。他们认为自己是与当地政治机构作斗争的局外人。除了一个例外，他们似乎不认为穷人是他们天然的对话者，他们可以依靠穷人获得坚定不移的政治支持，他们的大部分精力应该投向穷人。
Local governments are particularly relevant to people's daily lives as they manage the infrastructure and services that directly influence quality of life. Elected mayors tend to be more responsive to the needs of the poor majority than centrally appointed mayors or mayors who are elected by fellow councillors. Colombia's municipal mayors have been elected since 1988 and local governments have been given increased responsibilities and powers to raise local revenues. In this paper, four municipal mayors at the end of their four-year term reflect, in their own words, on the role they have played in shaping their municipalities. They recount their personal engagement with local politics, share their views about their society and problems such as poverty, inequality and violence, describe the business of managing a local government and exercising leadership sometimes in difficult circumstances, reflect on the qualities of a mayor, and explain how they sought continuity for their government programmes. They see themselves as outsiders struggling against local political machineries. With one exception, they do not seem to see the poor as their natural interlocutors on whom they can rely for unswerving political support and to whom most of their energy should be directed.