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Modernity and the Challenge of Metropolitan Governance: Failure of Structural Solutions and the Polycentric Alternative

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dc.contributor.author Raadschelders, Jos C. N. en_US
dc.contributor.author Toonen, Theo A. J. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:40:02Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:40:02Z
dc.date.issued 1999 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-05-21 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-05-21 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1840
dc.description.abstract "It will come as no surprise that throughout the 20th century various avenues have been proposed,and some experimented with, to 'solve' the problem of metropolitan governance once and for all. Our thesis in this paper is that the 'solutions' advanced so far,as idea or as experiment, aimed at being permanent. By the nature of, at least: Dutch, thinking about government, the solution to metropolitan problems was usually found in structural arrangements rather than through process-approaches. A permanent structural solution in the Netherlands focuses on redefining jurisdictions, on developing legal means to further voluntary or mandatory joint provisions, or on establishing a fourth tier of government. The idea that solutions could depart from a process angle, e.g. arrangements for decision making and consultation, is only toyed with in academic pursuits and rather weakly applied in covenants. We will argue that a real solution to the problems of metropolitan governance is only possible if it establishes flexible arrangements for governance, and hence are a combination of structural and processual approaches. It is in this combination that the polycentric perspective offers a 'global age' alternative to the structural modernistic approach." en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries J99-9 en_US
dc.subject Workshop en_US
dc.subject state and local governance--theory en_US
dc.subject urban affairs en_US
dc.subject polycentricity en_US
dc.title Modernity and the Challenge of Metropolitan Governance: Failure of Structural Solutions and the Polycentric Alternative en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Netherlands en_US
dc.subject.sector Urban Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Workshop on the Workshop 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 9-13, 1999 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Indiana University Bloomington en_US


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