Experimentalist Regional Governance

Experimentalist Regional Governance is a suitable concept in policy analysis. It makes it possible to analyze regulatory structures of governance, decision-making processes, institutional arrangements, and governance learning in geographic-functional regions such as metropolitan regions.

Today, decision-making increasingly takes place in highly complex situations where the optimal solution is unclear upfront. If the decision-making process extends over several years as in cases of large infrastructure projects best available technologies, the group of people affected, and the institutions involved change over time. The presented research provides a decision-making concept for such situations. Based on a sound content analysis with over 400 documents and more than 31,000 pages, the regulatory structure of governance of the extension of Frankfurt Airport since the 1960s is analyzed. As a result, the theoretically derived concept of Experimentalist Regional Governance to analyze regulatory structures of governance in highly complex decision-making processes is confirmed.

Autorentext

Jens Matthias Sorg studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he also received his doctorate.

Inhalt

Content analysis of the regulatory structure of governance, decision-making process, and institutional arrangement in metropolitan regions. Confirmation of the theoretical derived concept of Experimentalist Regional Governance. Presentation of a decision-making process for highly complex situations.