Types of Multi-Level Governance

Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks

European Integration online Papers (EIoP), 2001, vol. 5

Abstract: The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in the social sciences. Yet beyond the bedrock agreement that governance has become (and should be) multi-level, there is no convergence about how it should be organized. This paper draws on various literatures in distinguishing two types of multi-level governance. One type conceives of dispersion of authority to multi-task, territorially mutually exclusive jurisdictions in a relatively stable system with limited jurisdictional levels and a limited number of units. A second type of governance pictures specialized, territorially overlapping jurisdictions in a relatively flexible, non-tiered system with a large number of jurisdictions. We find that both types co-exist in different locations, and we explain some facets of this co-existence.

Keywords: constitutional change; differentiated integration; Europeanization; federalism; fiscal federalism; governance; identity; international relations; joint decision making; multilevel governance; neo-institutionalism; path dependence; regions; state building; political science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-10-12
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