LEADER 03409nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910811181203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-531-90999-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-531-90999-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000492866 035 $a(EBL)748729 035 $a(OCoLC)288475598 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000610334 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414089 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000610334 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10637602 035 $a(PQKB)11340669 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-531-90999-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC748729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL748729 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10252202 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL177393 035 $a(PPN)129061131 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000492866 100 $a20080319d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMultilevel urban governance and the 'European city' $ediscussing metropolitan reforms in Stockholm and Helsinki /$fNico Giersig 205 $aFirst edition 2008. 210 $aWiesbaden $cVS Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften | GWV Fachverlage GmbH$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (238 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 0 $a3-531-15998-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aMultilevel 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. 330 $aUrban 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. 606 $aLocal government$zEurope 606 $aMunicipal government$zEurope 615 0$aLocal government 615 0$aMunicipal government 676 $a320.8094 676 $a352.008 676 $a352.00809487 700 $aGiersig$b Nico$01675426 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811181203321 996 $aMultilevel urban governance and the 'European city$94040881 997 $aUNINA