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Governance
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ARTHUR BENZ
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and German
Government, Institute for Political Science, Technical University
of Darmstadt, Germany
JÖRG BROSCHEK
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in
Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance in the
Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, and
Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo,
Canada
MARKUS LEDERER
Professor of International Relations, Institute for Political
Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Introduction: What is multilevel governance? 1
Arthur Benz, Jörg Broschek and Markus Lederer
PART I STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS
1 Multilevel governance and the coordination dilemma 19
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
2 Democratizing multilevel governance 37
Achim Hurrelmann
3 Administrative structures of multilevel governance 57
Jarle Trondal
4 The role of law in multilevel governance: Four
conceptualizations 77
Mark Dawson
5 Digitalization and multilevel governance 95
Jeffrey Roy
PART II ACTORS AND POWER
6 Regional and global multilevel governance
between and beyond states 117
Tanja A. Börzel
7 Parliaments and parties in multilevel governance 135
Katrin Auel
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8 Regions and cities in multilevel governance 153
Michaël Tatham
9 Private actors, NGOs and civil society in multilevel
governance 171
Janne Mende
10 National minorities and Indigenous Peoples in
multilevel governance 191
Michael G. Breen and Anya Thomas
PART III ISSUES, CONFLICTS AND POLICYMAKING
11 The multilevel governance of security 211
Ursula Schröder
12 Multilevel governance, economic disparities and
redistribution policies 227
Adam Harmes
13 From sustainability to resilience: Multilevel
governance as adaptive governance 243
Debora L. VanNijnatten
14 Designing, reforming or adapting? Multilevel
governance and institutional change 261
Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek
Conclusion: A research agenda for multilevel governance 279
Arthur Benz, Jörg Broschek and Markus Lederer
Index 287
Figures
1.1 The ladder of governance 21
1.2 Coordination among states: Delegation, pooling
and policy scope in international organizations 26
1.3 Coordination within states: Self-rule and shared
rule for regional governments 29
8.1 A multi-actor and multilevel approach 163
9.1 Authority in multilevel governance 178
10.1 Institutional accommodation and infrastructural
capacity in Nepal, 1946–2016 199
10.2 Institutional accommodation and infrastructural
capacity in Nepal, 1946–2016 201
13.1 Adaptive governance framework 252
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Contributors
Katrin Auel is Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Group European
Governance, Public Finance and Labour Markets at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Vienna, Austria.
Arthur Benz is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and German
Government at the Institute for Political Science, Technical University of
Darmstadt, Germany.
Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair for
European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie
Universität Berlin.
Michael G. Breen is Lecturer in Public Policy (Melbourne Early Career
Academic Fellowship) in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of
Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Jörg Broschek is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)
in Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance in the Department
of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Fellow at the Balsillie
School of International Affairs, both in Waterloo, Canada.
Mark Dawson is Professor of European Law and Governance at the Hertie
School, Berlin, Germany.
Adam Harmes is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science,
Western University, London, Canada.
Liesbet Hooghe is W.R. Kenan Professor of Political Science at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor at the Robert Schuman
Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science at the Department
of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
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