Development of a Model for the Analysis of Life-cycles of Regional Cooperations in Mulitlevel-Regional-Governance

近年来，德国关于区域治理的研究主要集中在大都市区。中等规模的区域不太受关注。重点放在区域治理的早期发展阶段;长期发展，特别是制度化问题之外的长期发展，几乎没有得到解决。在几个区域合作的空间重叠问题上，还存在研究空白。在这一背景下，在本研究项目中，首先将在德国范围内对过去20年来在广泛的专题方向和补贴政策方面的中等规模区域合作情况进行定量调查。从而系统地划分区域多级治理结构的发展模式和空间重叠。在此基础上，通过对不同发展动力和自主程度的结构类型的个案研究，探讨不同发展模式的原因。个案研究以行动中心的制度主义为基础，采用质性社会研究的方法。作为研究的最后结果，将提出区域治理发展的一般阶段模型。

In the last years the German research concerning the topic of Regional Governance was concentrated on the Metropolitan Regions. Mediums-scaled regions were of minor interest. The focus was put on the early development-stages of Regional Governance; the long-scale-development, especially beyond the question of institutionalization, was hardly addressed. Research-Gaps furtherly are to be marked concerning the question of spatial overlaps of several regional cooperations. Against this background in this research-project initially a quantitative German-wide survey of the landscape of medium-scaled regional cooperation in a broad spectrum of thematic directions and policy on subsidies of the last 20 years will be executed. Thereby the development-patterns and spatial overlaps in regional multilevel-governance-structures will be carved out systematically. Upon this foundation by case studies in structure-types of different development-dynamics und degrees of autonomy the reasons for different development-patterns will be investigated. The Actored-Centered-Institutionalism is the base of the case studies; methods of qualitative social-research will be applied. As a final result of the study a general phase-model of the development of Regional Governance will be presented.