Governance of Metropolitan Regions – Who Actually Governs Them and How?
The project examines the implications of the new regionalism for regional and local governance and explores how the establishment of new metropolitan regions affects the sharing of power between politicians and civil servants. Its main aim is to shad light on who controls the newly emerging regions and how. Based on a mixed-methodological approach, the project examines how communication between civil servants and elected representatives works and whether the new governance models lead to improved cooperation or, conversely, to tensions in intermunicipal cooperation. The theoretical ambition of the project is to bring conceptual innovation to the field of multilevel governance and to contribute to the debate on multilevel administration (MLA).