The term multi-level governance (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection discusses seminal papers covering three waves of MLG scholarship; the first wave focuses largely on debates around Europe and the regions; the second on the nature and impact of MLG in wider settings (local, national and global) and the implications for accountability; and the third discusses MLG of different types and in new terrains (geographical or policy).
The term multi-level governance (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection discusses seminal papers covering three waves of MLG scholarship; the first wave focuses largely on debates around Europe and the regions; the second on the nature and impact of MLG in wider settings (local, national and global) and the implications for accountability; and the third discusses MLG of different types and in new terrains (geographical or policy).
Contents:
Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders
PART I MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Gary Marks (1993), ‘Structural Policy and Multilevel Governance
in the EC’, in Alan W. Cafruny and Glenda G. Rosenthal (eds), The
State of the European Community, Chapter 23, Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner, 391–410
2. Gary Marks (1996), ‘An Actor-Centred Approach to Multi‐Level
Governance’, Regional and Federal Studies, 6 (2), 20–38
3. Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe and Kermit Blank (1996), ‘European
Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric v Multi-level
Governance’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 34 (3), September,
341¬–78
4. Christopher K. Ansell, Craig A. Parsons and Keith A. Darden
(1997), ‘Dual Networks in European Regional Development Policy’,
Journal of Common Market Studies, 35 (3), September, 347–75
5. Ian Bache (1999), ‘The Extended Gatekeeper: Central Government
and the Implementation of EC Regional Policy in the UK’, Journal of
European Public Policy, 6 (1), March, 28–45
6. Andrew Jordan (2001), ‘The European Union: An Evolving System of
Multi-level Governance . . . or Government?’, Policy and Politics,
29 (2), April, 193–208
7. Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks (2003), ‘Unravelling the Central
State, but How? Types of Multi-level Governance’, American
Political Science Review, 97 (2), May, 233–43
8. Tarija E. Aalberts (2004), ‘The Future of Sovereignty in
Multilevel Governance Europe – A Constructivist Reading’, Journal
of Common Market Studies, 42 (1), February, 23–46
9. Stephen George (2004), ‘Multi-Level Governance and the European
Union’, in Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders (eds), Multi-level
Governance, Chapter 7, Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 107–26
10. Enrico Gualini (2006), ‘The Rescaling of Governance in Europe:
New Spatial and Institutional Rationales’, European Planning
Studies, 14 (7), August, 881–904
11. Paul Stubbs (2005), ‘Stretching Concepts Too Far? Multi-Level
Governance, Policy Transfer and the Politics of Scale in South East
Europe’, Southeast European Politics, VI (2), November, 66–87
12. Simona Piattoni (2009), ‘Multi-level Governance: A Historical
and Conceptual Analysis’, Journal of European Integration, 31 (2),
March, 163–80
13. Paul Stephenson (2013), ‘Twenty Years of Multi-Level
Governance: “Where Does It Come From? What Is It? Where Is It
Going?”’, Journal of European Public Policy, 20 (6), 817–37
PART II MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: REGIONS
14. Jeffrey J. Anderson (1990), ‘Skeptical Reflections on a Europe
of Regions: Britain, Germany, and the ERDF’, Journal of Public
Policy, 10 (4), October-December, 417–47
15. Liesbet Hooghe (1995), ‘Subnational Mobilisation in The
European Union’, West European Politics, 18 (3), 175–98
16. Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks (1996), ‘“Europe with the
Regions?”: Channels of Regional Representation in the European
Union’, Publius, 26 (1), Winter, 73–91
17. Peter John (1996), ‘Europeanization in a Centralizing State:
Multi-Level Governance in the UK’, Regional and Federal Studies, 6
(2), 131–44
18. Charlie Jeffery (1996), ‘Regional Information Offices in
Brussels and Multi-Level Governance in the EU: A UK-German
Comparison’, Regional and Federal Studies, 6 (2), 183–203
19. Steve Martin and Graham Pearce (1999), ‘Differentiated
Multi-level Governance? The Response of British Sub-national
Governments to European Integration’, Regional and Federal Studies,
9 (2), Summer, 32–52
20. Ian Bache and Rachel Jones (2000), ‘Has EU Regional Policy
Empowered the Regions? A Study of Spain and the United Kingdom’,
Regional and Federal Studies, 10 (3), Autumn, 1–20
21. Charlie Jeffery (2000), ‘Sub-National Mobilization and European
Integration: Does it Make Any Difference?’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, 38 (1), March, 1–23
22. Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe and Arjan H. Schakel (2008),
‘Patterns of Regional Authority’, Regional and Federal Studies, 18
(2-3), April-June, 167¬–81
23. John Loughlin (2007), ‘Reconfiguring the State: Trends in
Territorial Governance in European States’, Regional and Federal
Studies, 17 (4), December, 385–403
24. Ana Maria Dobre (2010), ‘Europeanization and New Patterns of
Multi-level Governance in Romania’, Southeast European and Black
Sea Studies, 10 (1), March, 59–70
PART III MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: DEMOCRACY
25. Jan Olsson (2003), ‘Democracy Paradoxes in Multi-level
Governance: Theorizing on Structural Fund System Research’, Journal
of European Public Policy, 10 (2), April, 283–300
26. B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (2004), ‘Multi-level Governance
and Democracy: A Faustian Bargain?’, in Ian Bache and Matthew
Flinders (eds), Multi-Level Governance, Chapter 5, Oxford, UK and
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 75–89
27. Chris Skelcher (2005), ‘Jurisdictional Integrity, Polycentrism,
and the Design of Democratic Governance’, Governance, 18 (1),
January, 89–110
28. Yannis Papadopoulos (2007), ‘Problems of Democratic
Accountability in Network and Multilevel Governance’, European Law
Journal, 13 (4), July, 469–86
29. Arthur Benz (2007), ‘Accountable Multilevel Governance by the
Open Method of Coordination?’, European Law Journal, 13 (4), July,
505–22
30. Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings (2007), ‘Promoting
Accountability in Multilevel Governance: A Network Approach’,
European Law Journal, 13 (4), July, 542–62
31. Ian Bache and Rachael Chapman (2008), ‘Democracy through
Multi-level Governance? The Implementation of the Structural Funds
in South Yorkshire’, Governance, 21 (3), July, 397–418
32. Bob Jessop (2009), ‘From Governance to Governance Failure and
from Multi-level Governance to Multi-scalar Meta-governance’, in
Bas Arts, Arnoud Lagendijk and Henk van Houtum (eds), The
Disoriented State: Shifts in Governmentality, Territoriality and
Governance, Chapter 4, Berlin, Germany: Springer Science and
Business Media B.V., 79¬–98
33. Yannis Papadopoulos (2010), ‘Accountability and Multi-level
Governance: More Accountability, Less Democracy?’, West European
Politics, 33 (5), September, 1030–49
Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume
I
PART I MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: EU COHESION POLICY
1. Mark A. Pollack (1995), ‘Regional Actors in an Intergovernmental
Play: The Making and Implementation of EC Structural Policy’, in
Carolyn Rhodes and Sonia Mazey (eds), The State of the European
Union, Vol. 3: Building a European Polity?, Chapter 16, Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner, 361–90
2. Andy Smith (1997), ‘Studying Multi-Level Governance: Examples
from the French Translations of the Structural Funds’, Public
Administration, 75, Winter, 711–29
3. Thomas Conzelmann (1998), ‘“Europeanisation” of Regional
Development Policies? Linking the Multi-Level Governance Approach
with Theories of Policy Learning and Policy Change’, European
Integration Online Papers, 2 (4), i, 1–23
4. John B. Sutcliffe (2000), ‘The 1999 Reform of the Structural
Fund Regulations: Multi-Level Governance or Renationalization?’,
Journal of European Public Policy, 7 (2), June, 290–309
5. Arthur Benz (2000), ‘Two Types of Multi-level Governance:
Intergovernmental Relations in Germany and EU Regional Policy’,
Regional and Federal Studies, 10 (3), Autumn, 21¬–44
6. David Bailey and Lisa De Propris (2002), ‘EU Structural Funds,
Regional Capabilities and Enlargement: Towards Multi-Level
Governance?’, Journal of European Integration, 24 (4), 303¬–24
7. Michael W. Bauer (2002), ‘The EU “Partnership Principle”: Still
A Sustainable Governance Device Across Multiple Administrative
Arenas?’, Public Administration, 80 (4), 769–89
8. Enrico Gualini (2003), ‘Challenges to Multi-Level Governance:
Contradictions and Conflicts in the Europeanization of Italian
Regional Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 10 (4),
August, 616–36
9. Adam Marshall (2005), ‘Europeanization at the Urban Level: Local
Actors, Institutions and the Dynamics of Multi-Level Interaction’,
Journal of European Public Policy, 12 (4), August, 668–86
10. Jens Blom-Hansen (2005), ‘Principals, Agents, and the
Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy’, Journal of European Public
Policy, 12 (4), August, 624–48
11. John Bachtler and Carlos Mendez (2007), ‘Who Governs EU
Cohesion Policy? Deconstructing the Reforms of the Structural
Funds’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 45 (3), September,
535–64
12. László Bruszt (2008), ‘Multi-level Governance – the Eastern
Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in
the New Member States’, Regional and Federal Studies, 18 (5),
October, 607–27
13. George Andreou (2010), ‘The Domestic Effects of EU Cohesion
Policy in Greece: Islands of Europeanization in a Sea of
Traditional Practices’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies,
10 (1), March, 13–27
14. Ian Bache, George Andreou, Gorica Atanasova and Danijel Tomsic
(2011), ‘Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance in South-East
Europe: The Domestic Impact of EU Cohesion Policy and Pre-Accession
Aid’, Journal of European Public Policy, 18 (1), January,
122–41
PART II MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: CLIMATE CHANGE
15. Harriet Bulkeley and Michele Betsill (2005), ‘Rethinking
Sustainable Cities: Multilevel Governance and the “Urban” Politics
of Climate Change’, Environmental Politics, 14 (1), February,
42–63
16. Michele M. Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley (2006), ‘Cities and the
Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change’, Global Governance,
12 (2), April, 141–59
17. Barry G. Rabe (2007), ‘Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Policy in
Multilevel Governance Systems’, Governance, 20 (3), July,
423–44
18. Eva Gustavsson, Ingemar Elander and Mats Lundmark (2009),
‘Multilevel Governance, Networking Cities, and the Geography of
Climate-Change Mitigation: Two Swedish Examples’, Environment and
Planning C: Government and Policy, 27, 59–74
19. Kristie Kern and Harriet Bulkeley (2009), ‘Cities,
Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance: Governing Climate
Change through Transnational Municipal Networks’, Journal of Common
Market Studies, 47 (2), March, 309–32
20. Helene Amundsen, Frode Berglund and Hege Westskog (2010),
‘Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation – A Question of
Multilevel Governance?’, Environment and Planning C: Government and
Policy, 28 (2), 276–89
21. Greg Marsden and Tom Rye (2010), ‘The Governance of Transport
and Climate Change’, Journal of Transport Geography, 18 (6),
November, 669–78
22. Andrew Jordan, Harro van Asselt, Frans Berkhout, Dave Huitema
and Tim Rayner (2012), ‘Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel
Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union’, Global
Environmental Politics, 12 (2), May, 43–66
23. Ian Bache, Ian Bartle, Matthew Flinders and Greg Marsden
(2014), ‘Blame Games and Climate Change Accountability: Multi-Level
Governance and Carbon Management’, British Journal of Politics and
International Relations, 17 (1), February, 64–88
PART III MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE: OTHER APPLICATIONS
24. Gerhard Fuchs (1994), ‘Policy-Making in a System of Multi-Level
Governance – the Commission of the European Community and the
Restructuring of the Telecommunications Sector’, Journal of
European Public Policy, 1 (2), Autumn, 177–94
25. Peter John (1996) ‘Europeanization in a Centralizing State:
Multi-Level Governance in the UK’, Regional and Federal Studies, 6
(2), 131–44
26. Rainer Eising (2004), ‘Multilevel Governance and Business
Interests in the European Union’, Governance: An International
Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 17 (2), April,
211–45
27. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders (2004), ‘Multi-Level Governance
and the Study of the British State’, Public Policy and
Administration, 19 (1), Spring, 31–52
28. Chun Yang (2005), ‘Multilevel Governance in the Cross-Boundary
Region of Hong Kong - Pearl River Delta, China’, Environment and
Planning A, 37 (12), 2147–68
29. Adam Harmes (2006), ‘Neoliberalism and Multilevel Governance’,
Review of International Political Economy, 13 (5), December,
725–49
30. Cecile Crespy, Jean-Alain Heraud and Beth Perry (2007),
‘Multi-level Governance, Regions and Science in France: Between
Competition and Equality’, Regional Studies, 41 (8), November,
1069–84
31. Beth Perry (2007), ‘The Multi-level Governance of Science
Policy in England’, Regional Studies, 41 (8), November, 1051–67
32. Adrian Smith (2007), ‘Emerging in Between: The Multi-level
Governance of Renewable Energy in the English Regions’, Energy
Policy, 35 (12), December, 6266–80
33. David Coen and Mark Thatcher (2008), ‘Network Governance and
Multi-Level Delegation: European Networks of Regulatory Agencies’,
Journal of Public Policy, 28 (1), April, 49–71
34. Philipp Genschel and Markus Jachtenfuchs (2011), ‘How the
European Union Constrains the State: Multilevel Governance of
Taxation’, European Journal of Political Research, 50 (3),
293–314
35. E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Maria Pettersson (2012),
‘Implementing Multi-level Governance? The Legal Basis and
Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive for Forestry in
Sweden’, Environmental Policy and Governance, 22 (2), March/April,
90–103
36. P.W.A. Scholten (2013), ‘Agenda Dynamics and the Multi-level
Governance of Intractable Policy Controversies: The Case of Migrant
and Integration Policies in the Netherlands’, Policy Sciences, 46
(3), September, 217–36
37. Jens Newig and Tomas M. Koontz (2014), ‘Multi-level Governance,
Policy Implementation and Participation: The EU’s Mandated
Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental
Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 21 (2), 248–67
Index
Edited by Ian Bache, Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy (CWiPP) and Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics and Director, Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK
"Bache and Flinders have assembled a valuable booka very good and
coherently edited stocktaking of the multi-level governance
literature."--Prof. Simon Bulmer, Journal of Common Market
Studies
"This volume represents an important contribution to the literature
dealing with governance in general and would be of benefit to
students not only of multi-level governance This book is likely to
be of value to researchers and to graduate students in the field of
European Union and domestic politics for some years to
come."--Prof. Graham Pearce, Regional and Federal Studies
"Even those familiar with the literature on multi-level governance
are likely to encounter new theoretical perspectives. Apart from
the merits of the individual chapters, the real strength of the
book lies in its thematic unity. Unlike many edited volumes, this
book is not a collection of separate chapters that happen to be
between the covers of the same book. Rather Ian Bache and Matthew
Flinders ensure that
"Bache and Flinders have assembled a valuable booka very good and
coherently edited stocktaking of the multi-level governance
literature."--Prof. Simon Bulmer, Journal of Common Market
Studies
"This volume represents an important contribution to the literature
dealing with governance in general and would be of benefit to
students not only of multi-level governance This book is likely to
be of value to researchers and to graduate students in the field of
European Union and domestic politics for some years to
come."--Prof. Graham Pearce, Regional and Federal Studies
"Even those familiar with the literature on multi-level governance
are likely to encounter new theoretical perspectives. Apart from
the merits of the individual chapters, the real strength of the
book lies in its thematic unity. Unlike many edited volumes, this
book is not a collection of separate chapters that happen to be
between the covers of the same book. Rather Ian Bache and Matthew
Flinders ensure that this edited volume is tightly focused. Given
the complexity of the concept this is a considerable achievement.
For serious scholars of multi-level governance the book is
essential reading,"--Prof. Anthony O'Halloran, Political Studies
Review
"Bache and Flinders have assembled a valuable booka very good and
coherently edited stocktaking of the multi-level governance
literature."--Prof. Simon Bulmer, Journal of Common Market
Studies
"This volume represents an important contribution to the literature
dealing with governance in general and would be of benefit to
students not only of multi-level governance This book is likely to
be of value to researchers and to graduate students in the field of
European Union and domestic
politics for some years to come."--Prof. Graham Pearce, Regional
and Federal Studies
"Even those familiar with the literature on multi-level governance
are likely to encounter new theoretical perspectives. Apart from
the merits of the individual chapters, the real strength of the
book lies in its thematic unity. Unlike many edited volumes, this
book is not a collection of separate
chapters that happen to be between the covers of the same book.
Rather Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders ensure that this edited
volume is tightly focused. Given the complexity of the concept this
is a considerable achievement. For serious scholars of multi-level
governance the book is essential
reading,"--Prof. Anthony O'Halloran, Political Studies Review
"Bache and Flinders have assembled a valuable booka very good and
coherently edited stocktaking of the multi-level governance
literature."--Prof. Simon Bulmer, Journal of Common Market
Studies
"This volume represents an important contribution to the literature
dealing with governance in general and would be of benefit to
students not only of multi-level governance This book is likely to
be of value to researchers and to graduate students in the field of
European Union and domestic
politics for some years to come."--Prof. Graham Pearce, Regional
and Federal Studies
"Even those familiar with the literature on multi-level governance
are likely to encounter new theoretical perspectives. Apart from
the merits of the individual chapters, the real strength of the
book lies in its thematic unity. Unlike many edited volumes, this
book is not a collection of separate
chapters that happen to be between the covers of the same book.
Rather Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders ensure that this edited
volume is tightly focused. Given the complexity of the concept this
is a considerable achievement. For serious scholars of multi-level
governance the book is essential
reading,"--Prof. Anthony O'Halloran, Political Studies Review
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