附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Daniel Kübler and Hubert Heinelt -- Metropolitan governance, democracy and the dynamics of place / Daniel Kübler and Hubert Heinelt -- The new French dice: metropolitan institution building and democratic issues / Emmanuel Négrier -- Building metropolitan governance in Spain, Madrid and Barcelona / Mariona Tomàs -- The emergence of metropolitan governance in Athens / Panagiotis Getimis and Nikolaos Hlepas -- The experience of metropolitan government in England / Michael Goldsmith -- Arrested metropolitanism: limits and contradictions of municipal governance reform in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Toronto / Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau -- The coming of age of metropolitan governance in Helsinki? / Anne Haila and Patrick Le Galès -- Reform and democracy in the Rotterdam region: an evaluation of the attempt to create a regional government / Linze Schaap -- Metropolitan governance in Germany / Dietrich Fürst -- Governing without government: metropolitan governance in Switzerland / Daniel Kübler, Fritz Sager and Brigitte Schwab -- Conclusion / Hubert Heinelt and Daniel Kübler.