Elected mayor offers public greater accountability, says study

摘要

Residents of Bristol voted for an elected mayor because they felt a single leader would be more responsive and wield greater powers to improve local services, an academic study has found. Bristolians - who were the only one of ten English cities to vote for a mayor in last year's mayoral referendums - viewed the former system of leader and cabinet as unaccountable and ineffective in terms of decision-making, research conducted by the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE) shows.