01297pab a2200181 454500 180718b2005 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Jouve, Bernard From government to urban governance in Western Europe: a critical 2005 p.285-94. Oct This article examines structural reorganisation in Western Europe and various factors explaining the new institutinal dynamics affecting the governance of their cities: the historical origins of renewed interest in metropolitan government; the division of powers between state and local and regional levels; and the linkage of the latter to 'Fordist' modes of state organisation. Since the 1990s new processes of decentralisation and regionalisation have affected the institutional landscape. Against the background of exacerbated territorial competition and the questioning of the welfare state, there has also been a transformation of a raison d'etre of urban institutions resulting in reformulated connections between civil societies and the dynamics of globalisation. - Reproduced. Urbanization - Western Europe Urban development - Western Europe Urban development Public Administration and Development 67437 67437 67437 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 25, Issue no: 4 AR67893 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR