Multilevel Urban Governance and the ‘European City’ Discussing Metropolitan Reforms in Stockholm and Helsinki /

• Main Author: Giersig, Nico (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; International relations.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.; International Relations.

Urban scholars have come up with very different answers to the question of what the main defining characteristics of urban Europe are and whether they can be described in a distinct ideal-typical model, the ’European City’. In order to fully understand the prevailing political arrangements and ongoi...

Table of Contents:

• Multilevel Urban Governance: Origin, Core Issues, Current Debates
• Theories of Urban Politics and Policies in a Changing Context
• From Urban Government to Multilevel Urban Governance
• Integrated Multilevel Urban Governance Analysis: Comparing Neostructuralist and Neo-Weberian Approaches
• Metropolitan Governance Reforms in Stockholm and Helsinki: An Indicator for Governance Transformations in Sweden and Finland
• Explaining the rationale of the research focus
• The Nordic Countries: A Comprehensive Political and Societal Model
• The Helsinki and Stockholm Regions in Context: Structural Characteristics, Recent Trends and New Challenges
• Metropolitan Cooperation, Integration and Conflict: Comparing Modes of Governance in the Finnish and Swedish Capital Regions
• Concluding Assessments.