Multi-level governance the missing linkages /

• Other Authors: Ongaro, Edoardo
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
• Series: Critical perspectives on international public sector management ; v. 4.
• Subjects: Political Science > Public Affairs & Administration.; Public administration.; Decentralization in government > European Union countries.; Regionalism > European Union countries.; Central-local government relations > European Union countries.

Multi-level governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities. Yet, criticisms have been aimed at its allegedly overly "descriptive", rather than explanatory, power. This volume argues that progress in both the study and...

Table of Contents:

• Multi-level governance : the missing linkages / Edoardo Ongaro
• Multi-level governance, EU public policy, and the evasive dependent variable / Anthony R. Zito
• Revisiting the management deficit : can the Commission (still not) manage Europe? / Hussein Kassim
• The independent EU commissioner : an administrative analysis / Adriaan Schout, Arnout Mijs
• EU agencies and the European multi-level administrative system / Edoardo Ongaro ... [et al.]
• The interaction between agencies, networks and the European Commission in emerging regulatory constellations : a comparative analysis of the European telecom sector and the European patent system / Esther van Zimmeren, Emmanuelle Mathieu, Koen Verhoest
• Multi-level governance, the EU and civil society : a missing link? / Simone Baglioni
• Administrative reforms in the intergovernmental setting : impacts on multi-level governance from a comparative perspective / Sabine Kuhlmann
• Bridging the gaps in multi-level governance : new spaces of interactions and multiple accountabilities in English sub-national governance / Joyce Liddle
• Metagovernance, risk and nuclear power in Britain / Keith Baker
• Politics and political strategies in multi-level systems / Duncan McTavish
• Multi-level governance of hydropower in China? The problem of transplanting a western concept into the Chinese governance context / Oliver Hensengerth
• Multi-level governance : underplayed features, overblown expectation, and missing linkages / Simona Piattoni.