The Changing Organization of Multilevel Water Management in the European Union. Going with the Flow?

Marthe Indset

International Journal of Public Administration, 2018, vol. 41, issue 7, 492-505

Abstract: Regulatory networks have become an essential feature of the European administrative system. They have expanded EU administrative capacities and consolidated a pattern of multilevel implementation along sectoral cleavages. This article examines how networks develop and take effect when more crosscutting policy aims are to be implemented. It argues and demonstrates with a case study of the Common Implementation Strategy of the Water Framework Directive that vertical and cross-sectoral coordination can be institutionalized in a network, suggesting an innovative role of regulatory networks. Such coordination supplements and challenges the role of national policy coordination, both horizontally across sectors and vertically down to the domestic sub-national, river basin.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2016.1274325

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