How metropolitan can you go? Citizenship in Polish city-regions

Lackowska, Marta; Mikuła, Łukasz

doi:10.1111/juaf.12260

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“…Measuring the feelings of belonging of a whole municipality is even more difficult and can only be approximated, especially in the absence of survey data. Considering that the duration of residence was found to be a good predictor of local place attachment in numerous studies(Kasarda and Janowitz 1974, Lackwoska and Mikuła 2015, Magre, Vallbé and Tomàs 2016 (after four to six years of living in one place, local place attachment increases significantly (Magre, Vallbé and Tomàs 2016)), I use the percentage of residents living in a municipality for five years or longer in the year 2000 to approximate citizens' attachment to their municipality.In order to distinguish between more and less localized political cultures for measuring the collective aspect of local identity, I leverage a specific feature of the canton of Fribourg:Its bilingualism. Fribourg is one of the few Swiss cantons that are bilingual, i.e.…”

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Incented Voluntary Municipal Mergers as a Two-Stage Process: Evidence from the Swiss Canton of Fribourg

Strebel

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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Voluntary mergers of local jurisdictions in Europe gained in importance in the last two decades. A debated but rarely analyzed issue in this field is the impact of different local characteristics on the probability to merge. The paper contributes to this debate by assessing the importance of local determinants in two stages of a merger process. The quantitative study of a large-scale territorial reform in the Swiss canton of Fribourg shows that factors linked to the functional dimension of local government, such as economic hardship, explain the start of a merger process but not the decision taken at the ballots. Here, factors associated with the political dimension of local government, such as political power considerations, offer a better explanation. These findings might be explained by the variation of different political actors' strength along the two stages of a merger process.

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Incented Voluntary Municipal Mergers as a Two-Stage Process: Evidence from the Swiss Canton of Fribourg

Strebel

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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“…That people's orientations and concerns increasingly escape the territorial confines of singular municipalities or urban jurisdictions, and are embedded in practices and experiences of everyday life, have been captured with notions such as ‘metrozenship’ (Yiftachel, ), ‘lived citizenship’ (Lister, ), and ‘communities of affected interests’ (Barnett, ). While research on city‐regional citizenship is relatively scarce, there is a growing body of research that seeks to make sense of urban forms of attachment, claims making and agency that cannot be pinned down to territory or legal status in any simple or straightforward manner (Häkli and Paasi, ; Purcell, ; Aldred, ; Jones, ; Kübler, ; Lackowska and Mikuła, ; Lidström and Schaap, ).…”

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A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning

Häkli¹,

Kallio²,

Ruokolainen³

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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City regions are significant sites of economic development, policymaking, and everyday living. Yet in many countries they are weakly institutionalized and therefore lack established democratic practices. This article is based on a study exploring citizen participation in city‐regional planning in Finland, where traditional participatory means have largely failed to invite and involve citizens. The analysis approaches city regions relationally, as evolving processes with a changing spatial shape and scope. Through the notion of lived citizenship, including the dimensions of status, practices and acts, the article reveals how the dominant ideas of citizenship in city‐regional planning hide from view elements that are significant for citizen participation. Whereas people's rights to participation can largely be fulfilled on a territorial basis in municipalities and states through legal membership in political communities, in the context of weakly institutionalized city‐regional planning such status‐based forms of participation are typically not available. This vagueness has created an image of a missing city‐regional citizenry, which the article sets out to challenge and rework through the notion of issue‐based participation as lived citizenship.

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“…In many of the studies, a strong focus is placed on citizens' support for metropolitan reform, regardless of the institutional arrangement put in place (e.g., Schaap 2005;Hamilton 2000). Other studies have focused on the citizens' perceptions of metropolitan governance, not only on their perception of metropolitan areas as political and communitarian spaces but also on the specific institutional models of metropolitan governance (mergers, direct election of metropolitan mayors and assemblies; see for instance Kübler 2005;Lidström 2006Lidström , 2010Lidström , 2013Lackowska and Mikuła 2015;and Vallbé, Magre and Tomàs 2015).…”

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Metropolitan challenges and reform pressures across Europe – the perspectives of city mayors

Dlabac

Tejado

Tomàs

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Local Government Studies

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Oliver Dlabac leads the research group on Local Democracy at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau and teaches on decentralisation at the University of Zurich. He has published on local and regional democracy in Switzerland and is currently leading a research project on the democratic foundations of urban planning in the city regions of Birmingham, Lyon and Zurich. Lluís Medir lectures in the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include local government and public policy, and his most recent publication is 'Dealing with Austerity: a case of local resilience in Southern Europe' in Local Government Studies, 2017. He researches in the GREL (www.ub.edu/grel). Mariona Tomàs is associate professor of Political Science and member of the GREL at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on metropolitan governance and urban policies, publishing several articles, book chapters, and comparative studies in the field. She received the Academic Gold Medal of the General Governor of Canada for her PhD in Urban Studies and she won the first prize of the political book of the Parliament of Quebec.

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How metropolitan can you go? Citizenship in Polish city-regions

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Incented Voluntary Municipal Mergers as a Two-Stage Process: Evidence from the Swiss Canton of Fribourg

Incented Voluntary Municipal Mergers as a Two-Stage Process: Evidence from the Swiss Canton of Fribourg

A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City‐Regional Planning

Metropolitan challenges and reform pressures across Europe – the perspectives of city mayors

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