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The article develops a methodological basis for choosing the optimal model for managing the agglomeration of settlements. The existing agglomeration problems and the need to accelerate growth due to the agglomeration effect form a challenge to the agglomeration governance system. For an adequate response it is important to understand the capabilities of governance models. These capabilities can be expressed through the description of the features of the models.For a large-scale description of the features of models, it is necessary to form groups of features, characterize each feature, compare the models according to the degree of its manifestation, and, if possible, explain the reason for the differences. The article investigates research papers within the framework of the theory of municipal reformers, the theory of public choice, in particular on the issues of centralization / decentralization of municipalities, intermunicipal cooperation, the efficiency of the economy of the public sector. The authors used general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, grouping, comparison.The revealed features make it possible to assess the governance model in terms of what the agglomeration will receive from its implementation. All features are combined into five groups: economic, social, administrative efficiency, democratization, stability. The study revealed 29 features, presented their explanation and degree of development, depending on the type of governance model.As a result of the study, the possibilities for justifying the feasibility of introducing models have increased. The authors represented scientific novelty by a more complete list of the features of models, a more detailed presentation of them, the approach of presenting information "from features", a convenient grouping that allows you to use the characteristic to assess the effectiveness of the activities of government authorities. The study can be useful for civil servants in charge of agglomeration processes. ; Статья развивает методологическую базу ...

The concentration of population and productive forces in Russia is significant: 58 % of the country's population lives in 124 major agglomerations. Moreover, 20 largest agglomerations produce 40 % of the country's gross domestic product. However, excessive concentration of resources can lead to "growth diseases" meaning that negative externalities can reduce the concentration's positive effect. Federal, regional, municipal levels of government need to regulate the agglomerative processes for lowering these negative effects. The basic instrument of regulation is the metropolitan governance system. It offers an opportunity to bring an agglomeration as a control object to a necessary state using a set of control mechanisms. Based on content analysis, we performed the author's multilevel decomposition of the metropolitan governance system, which differs from other studies by a greater depth of analysis. As a result, we presented the metropolitan governance system in the form of three subsystems: the control subsystem ("who controls?"), the controlled subsystem ("controls what?"), the subsystem of forward and backward linkages ("controls how?"). Each of these subsystems consists of 16 constituent elements. The elements of the control subsystem are the government bodies' composition and structure; methods for forming the government bodies; the status of agglomeration, its government body and participants; authority's territorial fragmentation. The controlled subsystem includes branches as control objects; responsibilities within the branches (planning, coordination, service provision); territory as a control object; methods for forming the agglomeration's territorial boundaries; methods of distributing the government bodies' functions. The elements of the subsystem of forward and backward linkages are the agglomeration's budget, transfers, taxes; the state (including regulatory and legal) regulation of the agglomeration's development; inter-municipal cooperation; mechanisms of coordinating and expressing the participants' interests; property of agglomeration authorities. For assessing each element, we proposed 46 formalized characteristics and their alternative values. Additionally, we tested four main metropolitan governance models (voluntar y, one-tier, two-tier municipal, regional). © 2019 Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. ; Рассмотрены основные подсистемы и элементы системы управления агломерацией на базе обобщенного и систематизированного мирового опыта. Дана характеристика управляющей подсистемы моделей управления городской агломерацией.