Research Committee # 5

International Political Science Association /  IPSA

METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE

Capacity, democracy and the dynamics of place


Edited by Hubert HEINELT  and Daniel  KÜBLER

Oxon : Routledge /ECPR - Studies in European Political Science, 2005


Contents

List of illustrations, ......................................................................................................................... ix

Notes on contributors........................................................................................................................ x

Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................................... xii

 

Introduction

Daniel Kübler and Hubert Heinelt................................................................................................. 1

Metropolitan governance, democracy and the dynamics of place

Daniel Kübler and Hubert Heinelt................................................................................................. 8

The new French dice: metropolitan institution building and democratic issues

Emmanuel Négrier.......................................................................................................................... 29

Building metropolitan governance in Spain : Madrid and Barcelona

Mariona Tomàs................................................................................................................................ 47

The emergence of metropolitan governance in Athens

Panagiotis Getimis and Nikolaos Hlepas.................................................................................... 63

The experience of metropolitan government in England

Michael Goldsmith.......................................................................................................................... 81

Arrested metropolitanism: limits and contradictions of municipal governance

reform in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto

Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau........................................................................................ 100

The coming of age of metropolitan governance in Helsinki?

Anne Haila and Patrick Le Galès............................................................................................... 117

Reform and democracy in the Rotterdam region: an evaluation of the attempt

to create a regional government

Linze Schaap................................................................................................................................... 133

Metropolitan governance in Germany

Dietrich Fürst................................................................................................................................. 151

 

Governing without government: metropolitan governance in Switzerland

Daniel Kübler, Fritz Sager and Brigitte Schwab..................................................................... 169

Conclusion

Daniel Kübler and Hubert Heinelt............................................................................................. 188

 

Index................................................................................................................................................ 203