Research Committee # 5

International Political Science Association /  IPSA

Metropolitanization and Political Change

Edited by Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot and Jefferey Sellers

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2005

Urban and Regional Research international,6

Contents

List of Contributors ........................................................................................................................ 7

Jefferey M. Sellers and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot

Preface .............................................................................................................................. 9
Jefferey M. Sellers and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot

Introduction: Metropolitanization and Political Change ........................................ 11

North America

Jean-Pierre Collin, Mélanie Robertson and Mathieu Charron

Patterns of Growth and Urban Politics in Metropolitan Canada .......................... 17

Jefferey M. Sellers

Metropolitanization and Politics in the United States:

From Single Model to Multiple Patterns .................................................................. 53

Western Europe

Melanie Walter-Rogg

Metropolitan Areas and Political Impact in Germany ............................................ 83

Henry Biick

Communication, Cohesion and Coordination.

Metropolitan Regions in Sweden .............................................................................. 119

Jacob Aars

Metropolitan Areas in Norway: Suburbanisation and

Political Behaviour ...................................................................................................... 141

Lawrence Ware, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher

Metropolitan Areas in England .................................................................................. 159

S.A.H. Denters and W.K.F. Rodenhuis

Dutch Metropolitan Political Arenas: Actors, Resources and Preferences ........ 191

Daniel Kübler and Urs Scheuss

Metropolitanization and Political Change in Switzerland .................................... 211

Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot

Towards an Americanization of French Metropolitan Areas?.............................. 231

Carlos Alba and Carmen Navarro

Metropolitan Areas in Spain. A Diverse and Unknown Reality........................... 265

Eastern Europe

Pawel Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska

Polish Metropolitan Areas: Vanilla Cities, Sandwich Suburbs ............................ 297

Gabor Soas and Gyôrgyi Ignits

Metropolitan Areas in Hungary ............................................................... ................... 329

Tom& Kosteleckÿ and Daniel Cermak

................ Metropolitanization and Political Change in the Czech Republic........................ 353

 

 

Beyond Europe and North America

Robert Cameron and Alicia Alvarez

Metropolitanization and Political Change in South Africa.................. ................... 373

Eran Razin and Anna Hazan

Metropolitanization and Political Change in Israel .............................. ................... 395

 

Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot and Jefferey Sellers

Conclusion: The Metropolitanization of Politics .................................................... 425