La influencia de los factores individuales y contextuales del liderazgo en los alcaldes de larga duración en las capitales de provincia en España

Abstract

The long-term mayors in the local government system in Spain can be defined as mayors who have remained at least four terms in office; as a result, they constitute agents of special interest for Political Science after four decades of municipal democracy. Based on an analysis of the scientific literature, this research note elaborates a proposal about the individual factors (autonomy, previous experience, female gender and political career) and contextual ones (population size, motion of censure, type of investiture, crisis produced by nationalization of local life and turncoat tendency) that affect the prolongation in time of local leadership. This way, we analyze the influence of these factors upon the temporal continuity of a sample of long-term mayors of elected in province capital cities and autonomous cities between 1979 and 2019. As a result, it is noted that previous professional experience, the local political career, the smaller demographic size and the type of investiture are the factors positively influencing local leaders to consolidate as long-term mayors.