| Content | 6 |
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| List of Tables and Figures | 8 |
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| Acknowledgements | 10 |
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| 1. Metropolitan Governance: A new topic and an old debate | 11 |
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| 1.1 Research questions and methods | 11 |
| 1.2 Metropolitan governance: the academic debate | 22 |
| 1.3 Factors influencing the development of various metropolitan arrangements | 32 |
| 2. The institutional setting of metropolitan-governance arrangements: Local government in Germany and Israel | 39 |
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| 2.1 Local government in Germany | 39 |
| 2.2 Local government in Israel | 58 |
| 3. Metropolitan governance arrangements and their development in the casestudies | 80 |
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| 3.1 Frankfurt/Rhine-Main: Governance without coordination? | 80 |
| 3.2 Institutional innovation in metropolitan governance: The Rhine-Neckar region | 116 |
| 3.3 The institutionalization of a metropolitan region: The region of Hanover | 138 |
| 3.4 Munich: A fragmented though well-functioning governance arrangement? | 168 |
| 3.5 Metropolitan governance in Stuttgart: New regionalism par excellence? | 190 |
| 3.6 Tel Aviv: The scope for metropolitan governance in a metropolitan state | 207 |
| 3.7 Haifa: A metropolitan region without metropolitan identity in the shadow of Tel-Aviv | 230 |
| 4. Comparative Reflections | 247 |
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| 4.1 Comparative reflections on metropolitan governance in Germany and Israel | 247 |
| 4.2 Variations in metropolitan governance in the two countries: An explanation | 256 |
| 4.3 The effectiveness of various metropolitan governance arrangements | 294 |
| 4.4. The democratic quality of different metropolitan governance arrangements | 310 |
| References | 329 |
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| List of Contributors | 353 |
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