Handbook on Multi-level Governance
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Handbook on Multi-level Governance

9781847202413 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by the late Henrik Enderlein, formerly Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany, Sonja Wälti, American University, Washington, DC, US and Michael Zürn, Social Science Research Center Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Publication Date: 2010 ISBN: 978 1 84720 241 3 Extent: 512 pp
Scholarship of multi-level governance has developed into one of the most innovative themes of research in political science and public policy. This accessible Handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts.

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Scholarship of multi-level governance has developed into one of the most innovative themes of research in political science and public policy. This accessible Handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts.

The importance of multi-level governance in specific policy areas is highlighted, and the contributors – an international group of highly renowned scholars – report on the ways in which their field of specialization is or may be affected by multi-level governance and how developments could affect its conceptualization. European integration is considered from its unique standpoint as the key catalyst in the development of multi-level approaches, and the use of multi-level governance in other parts of the world, at both domestic and regional levels, is also considered in detail before focus is shifted towards global governance. The Handbook concludes with a presentation of six policy fields and instruments affected by multi-level governance, including: social policy, environmental policy, economic policy, international taxation, standard-setting and policing.

This comprehensive Handbook takes stock of the vast array of multi-level governance theory and research developed in subfields of political science and public policy, and as such will provide an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers and students with a special interest in public policy, regulation and governance.
Critical Acclaim
‘The Handbook provides an authoritative overview of the MLG literature. . . it has the potential to be widely used as a source of reference. The book is systematically structured, and most chapters are of high quality. . .’
– Achim Hurrelmann, Environment and Planning C

‘The editors have produced an authoritative and comprehensive guide to multi-level governance. The book ranges across the domestic context, supraregionalism and global governance – all filtered through a sophisticated analytical framework and attention to policy detail. There is no better place to go than this book for a guide to the topic. An outstanding accomplishment.’
– David Held, London School of Economics, UK

‘This volume brings together scholars with a wide range of scholarly backgrounds to reflect on the value of MLG in different contexts, with sections on analytical approaches: MLG in the domestic context; the EU as a multi-level system; MLG and comparative regionalism; global governance; and policy areas. . . This is a valuable contribution to a debate that is not about to go away’
– Ian Bache, Political Studies
Contributors
Contributors: M.W. Bauer, M. Beisheim, A. Benz, T.A. Börzel, D. Braun, T. Büthe, S. Campe, S. Clarkson, H. Enderlein, B. Geys, A. Graser, T.N. Hale, M. Hallerberg, A. Hassel, E. Herschinger, S. Hix, L. Hooghe, C. Humrich, M. Jachtenfuchs, C. Jeffery, I. Kaul, K.A. Konrad, C. Kraft-Kasack, S. Kuhnle, G. Marks, W. Mattli, F.W. Mayer, A. Obydenkova, B. Rittberger, T. Rixen, A. Sbragia, M. Schäferhoff, F.W. Scharpf, J.A. Scholte, M.A. Schreurs, A.-M. Slaughter, M.B. Stein, W. Swenden, L. Turkewitsch, S. Wälti, B. Zangl, M. Zürn
Contents
Contents:

Introduction
Michael Zürn, Sonia Wälti and Henrik Enderlein

PART I: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
1. Types of Multi-level Governance
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks

2. Federalism and Optimal Allocation Across Levels of Governance
Benny Geys and Kai A. Konrad

3. Multi-level Games
Frederick W. Mayer

4. Multi-level Europe – The Case for Multiple Concepts
Fritz W. Scharpf

5. Global Governance as Multi-level Governance
Michael Zürn

PART II: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT
6. Subnational Participation in National Decisions: The Role of Second Chambers
Wilfried Swenden

7. Multi-level Governance, Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism
Mark Hallerberg

8. Multi-level Party Competition in Federal and Regional States
Charlie Jeffery

9. Multi-level Governance and Organized Interests
Anke Hassel

10. Multi-level Governance in Germany and Switzerland
Dietmar Braun

11. Multi-level Governance in Canadian and American Intergovernmental Relations
Michael B. Stein and Lisa Turkewitsch

PART III: THE EU AS A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM
12. The Institutional Framework of the European Union
Markus Jachtenfuchs

13. The European Union as a Loosely Coupled Multi-level System
Arthur Benz

14. Party Politics in the European Union
Simon Hix

15. Multi-level Governance and Parliaments in the European Union
Berthold Rittberger

16. Regions and the European Union
Michael W. Bauer and Tanja A. Börzel

PART IV: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM
17. Multi-level Governance and Comparative Regionalism
Alberta Sbragia

18. Multi-modal Governance in North America
Stephen Clarkson

19. Multi-level Governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Problems and Promises
Anastassia Obydenkova

20. Multi-level Governance the ASEAN Way
Miranda A. Schreurs

PART V: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
21. The Changing Role of the United Nations: Lessons for Multi-level Governance
Inge Kaul

22. Global Governance through Legislation
Christoph Humrich and Bernhard Zangl

23. Transgovernmental Networks and Multi-level Governance
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas N. Hale

24. Global Governance through Public–Private Partnerships
Marianne Beisheim, Sabine Campe and Marco Schäferhoff

25. Civil Society in Multi-level Governance
Jan Aart Scholte

PART VI: POLICY AREAS
26. Social Policy and Multi-level Governance
Alexander Graser and Stein Kuhnle

27. Multi-level Environmental Governance
Sonia Wälti

28. Economic Policy-making and Multi-level Governance
Henrik Enderlein

29. International Taxation and Multi-level Governance
Thomas Rixen

30. Standards for Global Markets: Domestic and International Institutions
Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli

31. International Policing: Embedding the State Monopoly of Force
Eva Herschinger, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christiane Kraft-Kasack

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