Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Négrier Emmanuel
    La métropolisation et réforme territoriale
    in Revue française d'administration publique , n. 141 ,  2012 ,  73-86
    “Metropolisation” and Territorial Reform — This article deals with “metropolisation” in France and the handling of this issue in the territorial reform of 16 December 2010. City-related issues, and beyond that, the inter-communal co-operation aspect of the reform are among the least conflictual aspects of this process which the Left has declared it will repeal in 2012 if it wins the elections. This does not mean that there is nothing at stake in relation to this issue. The law of 16 December 2010 addresses issues which have already proven controversial. It highlights the reservations, particularly in metropolitan areas, with which the Chevènement law of 12 July 1999 was met. This now familiar law proposed a more diffuse while at the same time institutional approach to “metropolisation”, providing for the setting up of urban communities and “communauté d’agglomération”. The article starts out by recalling the grounds for the reservations expressed and goes on in the second part to look at how the two major mechanisms developed in this new framework (métropoles, pôles métropolitains) provide, perhaps not a response, but at least a new phase in the French approach to institutional “metropolisation”.
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