Development of a Model for the Analysis of Life-cycles of Regional Cooperations in Mulitlevel-Regional-Governance

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Diller
• Subject Area: Urbanism, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning ; Human Geography
• Term: from 2015 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268410044

In the last years the German research concerning the topic of Regional Governance was concentrated on the Metropolitan Regions. Mediums-scaled regions were of minor interest. The focus was put on the early development-stages of Regional Governance; the long-scale-development, especially beyond the question of institutionalization, was hardly addressed. Research-Gaps furtherly are to be marked concerning the question of spatial overlaps of several regional cooperations. Against this background in this research-project initially a quantitative German-wide survey of the landscape of medium-scaled regional cooperation in a broad spectrum of thematic directions and policy on subsidies of the last 20 years will be executed. Thereby the development-patterns and spatial overlaps in regional multilevel-governance-structures will be carved out systematically. Upon this foundation by case studies in structure-types of different development-dynamics und degrees of autonomy the reasons for different development-patterns will be investigated. The Actored-Centered-Institutionalism is the base of the case studies; methods of qualitative social-research will be applied. As a final result of the study a general phase-model of the development of Regional Governance will be presented.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants