Metropolitan Governance - Different Paths in Contrasting Contexts: Germany and Israel

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Acknowledgements

1. Metropolitan Governance: A new topic and an old debate

1.1 Research questions and methods

1.2 Metropolitan governance: the academic debate

1.3 Factors influencing the development of various metropolitan arrangements

2. The institutional setting of metropolitan-governance arrangements: Local government in Germany and Israel

2.1 Local government in Germany

2.2 Local government in Israel

3. Metropolitan governance arrangements and their development in the casestudies

3.1 Frankfurt/Rhine-Main: Governance without coordination?

3.2 Institutional innovation in metropolitan governance: The Rhine-Neckar region

3.3 The institutionalization of a metropolitan region: The region of Hanover

3.4 Munich: A fragmented though well-functioning governance arrangement?

3.5 Metropolitan governance in Stuttgart: New regionalism par excellence?

3.6 Tel Aviv: The scope for metropolitan governance in a metropolitan state

3.7 Haifa: A metropolitan region without metropolitan identity in the shadow of Tel-Aviv

4. Comparative Reflections

4.1 Comparative reflections on metropolitan governance in Germany and Israel

4.2 Variations in metropolitan governance in the two countries: An explanation

4.3 The effectiveness of various metropolitan governance arrangements

4.4. The democratic quality of different metropolitan governance arrangements

References

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