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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451499603321

Autore

Giersig Nico

Titolo

Multilevel urban governance and the 'European city' [[electronic resource] ] : discussing metropolitan reforms in Stockholm and Helsinki / / Nico Giersig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, : VS Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften | GWV Fachverlage GmbH, c2008

ISBN

3-531-90999-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

320.8094

352.008

352.00809487

Soggetti

Local government - Europe

Municipal government - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ongoing transformations in urban Europe, they have increasingly turned towards ‘multilevel governance approaches’ to conduct more comprehensive and comparative analyses of urban politics and policies. Nico Giersig reflects on these debates and exemplifies the specificities of Nordic cities within Europe as a whole. He accomplishes this by means of a systematic comparison of governance arrangements and their dynamics in two Nordic capital regions.