Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance

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This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems. The book features a collection of cutting-edge trans-Atlantic contributions, covering topics such as federalism, decentralization as well as various forms and processes of regionalization and Europeanization. While the field of multilevel governance is comparatively young, research in the subject has also come of age as considerable theoretical, conceptual and empirical advances have been achieved since the first influential works were published in the early noughties. The present volume aims to gauge the state-of-the-art in the different research areas as it brings together a selection of original contributions that are united by a variety of configurations, dynamics and mechanisms related to governing in multilevel systems. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: The Relevance of Studying Multilevel Governance (Nathalie Behnke, Jörg Broschek, Jared Sonnicksen)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Transformation of the State and Multilevel Governance (Arthur Benz)....Pages 23-40 How Bureaucratic Networks Make Intergovernmental Relations Work: A Mechanism Perspective (Nathalie Behnke)....Pages 41-59 ‘Governance Fatigue’ and Public Mismanagement: The Case for Classic Bureaucracy and Public Values (Wolfgang Seibel)....Pages 61-77 Cooperative Administration in Multilevel Governance Analysis: Incorporating Governance Mechanisms into the Concept (Nicolai Dose)....Pages 79-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 Policy-Making as a Source of Change in Federalism: A Dynamic Approach (Dietmar Braun, Johanna Schnabel)....Pages 99-115 National Parliaments as Multi-Arena-Players: A New Deliberative Role Within the EU Multilevel System? (Katrin Auel)....Pages 117-133 Intermediary Levels of Governance in Multilevel Systems: Exploring the Second Tier of Local Government from the Assessment of Laymen Politicians (Björn Egner)....Pages 135-153 Bridging the Gap Between the Local and the Global Scale? Taming the Wicked Problem of Climate Change Through Trans-Local Governance (Jörg Kemmerzell)....Pages 155-172 Multilevel Coordination in EU Energy Policy: A New Type of “Harder” Soft Governance? (Michèle Knodt)....Pages 173-191 Soft Law Implementation in the EU Multilevel System: Legitimacy and Governance Efficiency Revisited (Miriam Hartlapp)....Pages 193-210 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 The Ambivalence of Federalism and Democracy: The Challenging Case of Authoritarianism—With Evidence from the Russian Case (Sabine Kropp)....Pages 213-229 Popular Federalism for a Compound Polity? The Federalism of the Antifederalists and Implications for Multilevel Governance (Dirk Jörke, Jared Sonnicksen)....Pages 231-247 Multilevel Democracy: A Comparative Perspective (Fritz W. Scharpf)....Pages 249-271 On Cross-Level Responsiveness in Multilevel Politics: A Comparison of Airport Expansions in Germany, Switzerland and the UK (Eike-Christian Hornig)....Pages 273-292 Demoi-cracy: A Useful Framework for Theorizing the Democratization of Multilevel Governance? (Achim Hurrelmann, Joan DeBardeleben)....Pages 293-310 Extending the Coupling Concept: Slack, Agency and Fields (John Erik Fossum)....Pages 311-327 Front Matter ....Pages 329-329 The Evolution of Legislative Power-Sharing in the EU Multilevel System (Katharina Holzinger, Jan Biesenbender)....Pages 331-349 Hidden Power Shifts: Multilevel Governance and Interstitial Institutional Change in Europe (Adrienne Héritier)....Pages 351-367 Sub-Federal State-Building and the Origins of Federalism: A Comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland (Gerhard Lehmbruch)....Pages 369-385 Conclusion: Governing Under the Condition of Complexity (Arthur Benz)....Pages 387-409 Back Matter ....Pages 411-417