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
Summary
Nico Giersig exemplifies the specificities of Nordic cities within Europe as a whole by means of a systematic comparison of governance arrangements and their dynamics in two Nordic capital regions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238)