Evaluation of Multilevel Governance of Metropolitan Areas in Portugal (GOV-M)
Start and end of the project
2017 - 2019
Principal Investigator
Professor Paulo Castro Seixas
Research Team
| Researcher's Name |
Institutional Affiliation |
| Paulo Castro Seixas |
CAPP-ISCSP |
| Joaquim Croca Caeiro | CAPP-ISCSP |
| Avelino Oliveira | CAPP-ISCSP |
| Filipe Ferreira | ISCSP |
| Ricardo Daniel da Cunha Dias | CAPP-ISCSP |
Project Summary
The GOV-M has two main objectives: to evaluate a public policy and to contribute to the scientific discussion of the government-governance relationship in a multilevel framework. The project focuses on the concrete experience resulting from the consolidation of the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon (MAL) and Porto (MAP) under Law 75/2013, aiming to evaluate the process and impacts of multilevel governance experience in these administrative regions.
Based on a mixed methodology (questionnaire and interviews with presidents of municipalities and reflective memories and interviews with qualified informants who followed the process of implementing the MAs), the project seeks to identify the ways in which the government-governance relationship in a multilevel framework was negotiated in the process of concrete implementation of the MAs. It starts from the hypothesis that the very design of governance-governance achieved in each case is a function of such negotiation process.
The unequivocal contribution of this research is to bring together multilevel government-governance practices (policies) themselves questioned (reflexive practices) with the conceptualizations in the literature. The question of the limits of practices in relation to conceptualizations and vice versa and complex processes of rhetoric-and-practices at the various levels will be a clear theoretical surplus with possible applications (informing policy).