Metropolitan Governance in the 21st Century

Hubert Heinelt is Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research at the Institute for Political Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Daniel Kübler is Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and currently visiting researcher at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• 1 Introduction 2 Metropolitan governance, democracy and the dynamics of place 3 The new French dice: metropolitan institution building and democratic issues 4 Building metropolitan governance in Spain: Madrid and Barcelona 5 The emergence of metropolitan governance in Athens 6 The experience of metropolitan government in England 7 Arrested metropolitanism: limits and contradictions of municipal governance reform in Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto 8 The coming of age of metropolitan governance in Helsinki? 9 Reform and democracy in the Rotterdam region: an evaluation of the attempt to create a regional government 10 Metropolitan governance in Germany 11 Governing without government: metropolitan governance in Switzerland 12 Conclusion