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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This Research Agenda provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the field of multilevel governance. Illustrating theoretical and normative approaches and identifying prevailing gaps in research, it offers a cutting-edge agenda for future investigations.
Leading experts from a range of disciplines explore key questions of multilevel governance pertaining to institutions and institutional dynamics, power relationships and the division of power, as well as policymaking and policy change. Chapters engage with a broad range of policy areas, including digitization, security, climate change and redistributive policies, addressing key multilevel governance issues and dilemmas in coordination, intergovernmental relations, democracy and the transformation of political authority. In an era demarcated by major transformative challenges, this Research Agenda represents an essential reading for students, academics and policy practitioners interested in public policy, comparative politics and intergovernmental or international relations.
Offering a state-of-the-art agenda for future research, this book is crucial reading for researchers and graduate students in political science, public administration and federal studies. Its practical insights into contemporary policymaking will also benefit practitioners interested in multilevel governance policy.
Trade Review‘In an age of complexity, change and turbulence, A Research Agenda for Multilevel Governance
provides conceptual clarity and fresh perspectives . . . it redefines the state-of-the-art when it comes to understanding contemporary governance.’ -- Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: What is Multilevel Governance? Arthur Benz, Jörg Broschek and Markus Lederer PART I: STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS 1 Multilevel Governance and the Coordination Dilemma Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks 2 Democratizing Multilevel Governance Achim Hurrelmann 3 Administrative Structures of Multilevel Governance Jarle Trondal 4 The Role of Law in Multilevel Governance: Four Conceptualizations Mark Dawson 5 Digitalization and Multilevel Governance Jeffery Roy PART II: ACTORS AND POWER 6 Regional and Global Multilevel Governance Between and Beyond States Tanja A. Börzel 7 Parliament and Parties in Multilevel Governance Katrin Auel 8 Regions and Cities in Multilevel Governance Michaël Tatham 9 Private Actors, NGOs and Civil Society in Multilevel Governance Janne Mende 10 National Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Multilevel Governance Michael G. Breen and Anya Thomas PART III: ISSUES, CONFLICTS AND POLICYMAKING 11 The Multilevel Governance of Security Ursula Schröder 12 Multilevel Governance, Economic Disparities and Redistributive Policies Adam Harmes 13 From Sustainability to Resilience: Multilevel Governance as Adaptive Governance Debora Van Nijnatten 14 Designing, Reforming or Adapting? Multilevel Governance and Institutional Change Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek Conclusion: A Research Agenda for Multilevel Governance Arthur Benz, Jörg Broschek and Markus Lederer Index
