‘How Can We Explain Diversity in Metropolitan Governance within a Country?’ Some Reflections on Recent Developments in Germany
‘How Can We Explain Diversity in Metropolitan Governance within a Country?’ Some Reflections on Recent Developments in Germany
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“我们如何解释一个国家内大都市治理的多样性？”对德国近期发展的一些思考
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2011
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K. Zimmermann
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Hubert Heinelt;K. Zimmermann
在关于都市治理的争论中，一个普遍表达的假设是，国家地位的重建可以使都市治理沿着多种路径发展。这对德国来说尤其如此，在那里我们可以在大都市聚集的层面上发现多种多样的合作组织形式。本文讨论的问题是，如何在比较德国三个地区的基础上，解释一个或多或少体制结构统一的国家内部的多样性。我们研究是否以及如何将这些差异解释为结构变量和其他变量的组合。我们的初始假设是，具体情况的结构变量很重要——例如，区域核心城市在国际城市层级中的位置，区域的经济结构，或者区域政党体系中的主导地位或两极分化。此外，该假设将考虑空间嵌入的合作行为者行为和行为者相关因素，包括政治领导和特定的激励结构或机会窗口，也很重要。我们的结论是，这种对城市治理转型的双重解读是理解城市治理安排差异的最合适方式。
In the debate on metropolitan governance, a commonly expressed hypothesis is that the reconstruction of statehood can take metropolitan governance along a variety of paths. This is especially true for Germany, where we can identify a great diversity of organizational forms of cooperation at the level of metropolitan agglomerations. This article addresses the question of how diversity within a country with more or less uniform institutional structures can be explained on the basis of a comparison of three German regions. We examine whether and how such differences can be explained as a combination of structural and other variables. Our starting hypothesis is that case-specific structural variables matter - for example, the position of the core cities of the regions in the international hierarchy of cities, the economic structure of the regions, or the dominance or polarization within the regional party system. Furthermore, the hypothesis will be considered that spatially embedded cooperative actor behaviour and actor-related factors, including political leadership and specific incentive structures or windows of opportunities, also matter. We conclude that such a double reading of the transformation of metropolitan governance is the most appropriate way to understand differences in metropolitan governance arrangements.