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Multi-level governance

26 Feb 2004-Research Papers in Economics (Oxford University Press)-
TL;DR: Themes and issues in multi-level governance are discussed in this article, where the authors compare different visions of multi-Level Governance and Meta-Governance. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two levels of governance.
Abstract: Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Themes and Issues in Multi-Level Governance PART 1: THEORY 2. Contrasting Visions of Multi-Level Governance 3. Strong Demand, Huge Supply 4. Multi-Level Governance and Multi-Level Meta-Governance 5. Multi-Level Governance and Democracy PART 2: LEVELS 6. Multi-Level Governance and British Politics 7. Multi-Level Governance and the European Union 8. Multi-Level Governance and International Relations PART 3: SECTORS 9. Multi-Level Governance and Environmental Policy 10. Multi-Level Governance and Regional Policy 11. Multi-Level Governance and Economic Policy 12. Multi-Level Governance: Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a conceptual framework addressing the dynamics and adaptive capacity of resource governance regimes as multi-level learning processes, where the influence of formal and informal institutions, the role of state and non-state actors, the nature of multilevel interactions and the relative importance of bureaucratic hierarchies, markets and networks are identified as major structural characteristics of governance regimes.
Abstract: Governance failures are at the origin of many resource management problems. In particular climate change and the concomitant increase of extreme weather events has exposed the inability of current governance regimes to deal with present and future challenges. Still our knowledge about resource governance regimes and how they change is quite limited. This paper develops a conceptual framework addressing the dynamics and adaptive capacity of resource governance regimes as multi-level learning processes. The influence of formal and informal institutions, the role of state and non-state actors, the nature of multi-level interactions and the relative importance of bureaucratic hierarchies, markets and networks are identified as major structural characteristics of governance regimes. Change is conceptualized as social and societal learning that proceeds in a stepwise fashion moving from single to double to triple loop learning. Informal networks are considered to play a crucial role in such learning processes. The framework supports flexible and context sensitive analysis without being case study specific. First empirical evidence from water governance supports the assumptions made on the dynamics of governance regimes and the usefulness of the chosen approach. More complex and diverse governance regimes have a higher adaptive capacity. However, it is still an open question how to overcome the state of single-loop learning that seem to characterize many attempts to adapt to climate change. Only further development and application of shared conceptual frameworks taking into account the real complexity of governance regimes can generate the knowledge base needed to advance current understanding to a state that allows giving meaningful policy advice.

1,783 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the emergence of the "policy mix" concept into common use in the field of innovation policy studies provides a window of opportunity to reconsider some basic and often hidden assumptions in order to better deal with a messy and complex, multi-level, mult-actor reality.

776 citations


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  • ...…policy studies and is reflected more broadly in the replacement of traditional state-centric models of government and 'public administration' by new ideas about multi-level, multi-actor 'governance' and the ‗New Public Management‘ (see e.g. Bache and Flinders, 2004; Dunleavy and Hood, 1994)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that large world cities have political aspirations to develop purposive and managed change in the socio-technical organisation of infrastructure networks that can be characterised as systemic transitions.

665 citations

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31 Oct 2006
TL;DR: This book addresses the fundamental issues of what kind of local and regional development and for whom and frameworks of understanding, and instruments and policies should be pursued.
Abstract: Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and, new and reformed approaches to intervention, policy and institutions for local and regional development. Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of ‘what kind of local and regional development and for whom?’, its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions, and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed, critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context, grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.

586 citations


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  • ...Multilevel governance and local and regional development Local and regional development now occurs within the context of a multilevel polity in which local, regional, national and supranational authorities and institutions all play a role (see Hooghe and Marks 2001; Bache and Flinders 2004)....

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TL;DR: A relational view of the region based upon an assemblage of political actors, some public, some private, where elements of central and local government are "lodged" within the region, not acting above or below it, is presented in this article.
Abstract: Allen J. and Cochrane A. (2007) Beyond the territorial fix: regional assemblages, politics and power, Regional Studies 41, 1161–1175. The idea of regions as territorially fixed in some vital political sense is a stubborn conception, one that is both mobilized to pursue selective interests and to establish regional identities. To assert that regions are political constructs, however, is not to say that such bounded, territorial entities enclose all the political relations that produce them. This paper puts forward a relational view of the region based upon an assemblage of political actors, some public, some private, where elements of central and local government are ‘lodged’ within the region, not acting above or below it. Using examples drawn from governing agencies across and beyond the south-east of England, it is shown how a more diffuse form of governance has given rise to a spatially discontinuous region. This is grounded in an exposition of the political assemblage that is Milton Keynes today, with...

503 citations


Cites background from "Multi-level governance"

  • ...…upon the notion of multi-level governance, a concept borrowed from political science and, in particular, from debates generated by the experience of the European Union and, more specifically, the working of the structural funds (BACHE and FLINDERS, 2004; HOOGHE and MARKS, 2003; WARLEIGH, 2006)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse different types of regions with respect to their preconditions for innovation, networking and innovation barriers and develop different policy options and strategies based on this classification.

2,632 citations