Mayors3

I am the coordinator of the Italian team.
The Mayors3 research group focuses on the elected mayors in almost 30 European countries.

Mayors3 is the successor of a previous network of European scholars, which, over the last few decades, conducted comparative research on the attitudes and behavior of some key actors in and around local government. They scrutinized chief executives, mayors, councilors, and local state-society relations in about 20 to 30 countries (The European Mayor; Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy; Local Councilors).

The Mayors3 network is updating their previous work on the European Mayors, published as the other with Palgrave.

Matters such as gender, parties, institutions, municipal reform, functions in governance networks, and mayoral influence will be considered using data collected in an international survey, covering mayoral local political elite in more than 25 countries.

The first meeting will be held May 7-10, 2026  in Madrid