Human Security : safeguarding and empowering people

Abstract

This paper explored the relations between mayors’ different attributes such as family background, educational background and age. It also examined whether there are significant correlations between mayors’ attributes and their political behaviors as well as new paradigm of governance – New Public Management (NPM). Our assumption under these examinations is that the mayors from political families which spread their roots in local politics widely don’t prefer NPM than the mayors from non-political families. Results of analysis, contrary to our assumption, don’t show significant difference between mayors from political family and non-political family.