Multi-Level Governance : The Missing Linkages.
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- Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management Series ; v.4 .
- Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management Series .
Front Cover -- Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- References -- Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages -- Notes -- References -- Multi-Level Governance, EU Public Policy and the Evasive Dependent Variable -- Introduction -- Multi-Level Governance and Its Propositions -- Network Governance -- PA Approach and Policy Learning -- MLG Propositions -- Concluding Thoughts: Where to Take the MLG Agenda? -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Revisiting the 'Management Deficit': Can the Commission (Still Not) Manage Europe? -- The Metcalfe Critique -- The Management Challenge: Developments Since 1992 -- Revisiting the 'Management Deficit' -- The Commission: The Internal Dimension -- The Commission: External Strategizing -- Manageability within the Single Market -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Independent EU Commissioner: An Administrative Analysis -- Introduction -- Changing the Parameters of Economic Governance -- The EU's Ambitions and Administrative Capacities -- Organisational Capacity I: Independence as Operational Value -- Organisational Capacity II: Operating Procedures of the Independent Commissioner -- Policy Preparation -- Writing of the Recommendations by DG ECFIN -- Decision-Taking in the College -- Conclusions -- References -- EU Agencies and the European Multi-Level Administrative System -- EU Agencies and the Transformation of EU Multi-Level Administration -- Research Questions -- Ideal Typical Models of Agencies and Comparison -- The Autonomy of EU Agencies -- Personnel Autonomy -- Financial Autonomy -- Policy Autonomy -- Summative Indexes of Autonomy and Discussion -- The Steering and Control of EU Agencies -- Policy Networks and Agencies in the EU: Mapping the Integration/Disintegration Mosaic. EU Agencies in Policy Networks -- Where's the Influence? Involvement of EU Agencies in European Public Policy Processes -- Addressing the Research Questions -- Concluding Remarks: EU Agencies in the European Multi-Level Administrative System -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix: The Design of the Research -- The Interaction between Agencies, Networks, and the European Commission in Emerging Regulatory Constellations: A Comparativ... -- Introduction -- Analytical Framework -- The Role of the Commission and Regulatory Networks in the European Telecom Sector -- First Phase Regulatory Reforms: NRAs and the IRG (1990s) -- Second Phase Regulatory Reforms: The Establishment of the ERG (2002-2009) -- Third Phase Regulatory Reforms: The Shift to BEREC and the Office (2009-Present) -- The Role of the Commission and Regulatory Networks in the European Patent System -- Historical Context: From Divergence to Convergence (Until 1940s) -- First Phase Regulatory Reforms: The Establishment and Functioning of the European Patent System (1950s-1980s) -- Second Phase Regulatory Reforms: Negotiations on the Community Patent (1990s-2005) -- Third Phase Regulatory Reforms: The Adoption and Implementation of the EU Patent Package (2006-Present) -- Parallel Development: The Formation of the European Patent Network -- Comparative Analysis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Multi-Level Governance, the EU and Civil Society: A Missing Link? -- Civil Society and the European Union: The Rhetorical Perspective -- Mapping Organizations -- Civil Society and the European Union: The Empirical Perspective -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Administrative Reforms in the Intergovernmental Setting: Impacts on Multi-Level Governance from a Comparative Perspective -- Introduction. Institutional Reforms in the Intergovernmental Setting: Vertical and Horizontal Tracks -- Ideal Types of Subnational Organization and MLG -- Theoretical Assumptions about Impacts of Institutional Reforms -- Do Intergovernmental Reforms Make a Difference for MLG? Analyzing Institutional Changes -- France: Two Waves of Political Decentralization -- England: "Agencification" and "Quangoization" as Administrative De-Concentration -- Germany: "Functional Reforms" as Administrative Decentralization -- Reforming for the Better or the Worse? Analyzing Impacts of Institutional Reforms on Local Governments' Performance -- Effectiveness -- France -- England -- Germany -- Efficiency -- France -- England -- Germany -- Horizontal or MLG Type I Coordination Capacities -- France -- England -- Germany -- Vertical or MLG II Coordination Capacities -- France -- England -- Germany -- Democratic Control and Accountability -- France -- Germany -- England -- Equity of Service Provision -- France -- Germany -- England -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Bridging the Gaps in Multi-Level Governance: New Spaces of Interactions and Multiple Accountabilities in English Sub-Nation... -- Introduction: The Introduction of Local Enterprise Partnerships in England: Business-Led Growth through Multi-Agency Partne... -- MLG: A Suitable Framework for Analysis of LEPs? -- Accountability to Whom? LEPs as Multi-Agency Partnerships -- Stakeholder Models and Multiple Accountabilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Map of 39 English Local Enterprise Partnerships -- Metagovernance, Risk and Nuclear Power in Britain -- Introduction: Nuclear Power in Britain -- Governance, Multi-Level Governance and Metagovernance -- Metagovernance and Policy Tools -- Understanding Risk -- Methodology -- Reviving Nuclear Power in Britain through Metagovernance. Institutional Risk -- Completion Risk -- Market Risk -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Politics and Political Strategies in Multi-Level Systems -- Introduction -- MLG, Degradation of Politics and Political Accountability -- Some State Wide Approaches to Management of Multi Levelism -- Party and Political Action in Multi-Level Systems. The UK Case in International Context -- A Win-Lose, Zero Sum Game? -- Party Political Strategies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Multi-Level Governance of Hydropower in China? The Problem of Transplanting a Western Concept into the Chinese Governance C... -- Introduction -- Multi-Level Governance and Its Regional Varieties -- The 'New Authoritarianism' and Its Resilience -- Distribution of Authority in the Environmental and Hydropower Policy Field and the Levelling of Authority Structures -- Beyond Levels: Networks and Informality in the Policy Process -- Conclusion: Levels, Fragments, and the Utility of Multi-Level Governance. Towards a Scalar-Network Approach for China's Ref... -- Notes -- References -- Multi-Level Governance: Underplayed Features, Overblown Expectation and Missing Linkages -- Introduction -- Defining MLG: Solving the Dependent Variable Problem -- The Contextual Causes of MLG -- The Institutional Consequences of MLG -- Are MLG Arrangements Democratic? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Postface -- Notes -- Author Biographies.
This volume argues that progress in both the study and the practice of Multi-Level Governance may derive from developing linkages with disciplines, perspectives and issues that have so far not been explored in connection to MLG.
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Central-local government relations -- Great Britain.