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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87

Hooghe, Liesbet and Marks, Gary (2003) Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87. [Working Paper]

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      Abstract

      The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science. Yet beyond agreement that governance has become (and should be) multi-level, there is no consensus about how it should be organized. This article draws on several literatures to distinguish two types of multi-level governance. One type conceives of dispersion of authority to general-purpose, non-intersecting, and durable jurisdictions. A second type of governance conceives of task-specific, intersecting, and flexible jurisdictions. We conclude by specifying the virtues of each type of governance.

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      Item Type: Working Paper
      Uncontrolled Keywords: General-purpose jurisdictions; Task-specific jurisdictions; Theories of governance
      Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > political affairs > governance: EU & national level
      Other > integration theory (see also researching and writing the EU in this section)
      Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
      EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
      EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
      Series: Series > Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), Department of Political Science > IHS Political Science Series
      Depositing User: Elisabet Torggler
      Official EU Document: No
      Language: English
      Date Deposited: 07 May 2003
      Page Range: p. 38
      Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 17:15
      URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/530

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