Contrasting Visions of Multi-level Governance

Hooghe, E.A.E.B.; Marks, Gary

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“…In general, regulatory reforms seem to fit in better with structuring and coordinating state-market configurations (on the public-private dimension) than with how intra-and inter-governmental relations are structured and coordinated within so-called 'general-purpose jurisdictions' (Marks and Hooghe, 2005). This could explain why regulatory reforms are more developed in the Netherlands than in England and Italy, where regulatory reforms are more of an ad-hoc nature.…”

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The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy

Helderman

Bevan

France

2012

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In a relatively short time, regulation has become a significant and distinct feature of how modern states wish to govern and steer their economy and society. Whereas the former ‘dirigiste’ state used to be closely related to public ownership (e.g. hospitals), planning (volume and capacity planning) and centralised administration (e.g. fixed prices and budgets), the new regulatory state relies mainly on the instrument of regulation to achieve its objectives. In this paper, we wish to relate the rise of the ‘regulatory state’ to the path-dependent trajectories and institutional legacies of discrete European health-care systems. For this purpose, we compared the Dutch corporatist social health insurance system, the strongly centralised National Health Service (NHS) of England and federal regionalised NHS system of Italy. Comparing these three different health-care systems suggests that it is indeed possible to identify a general trend towards the rise of the regulatory state in health care in the last two decades. However, although the three countries examined in this paper face similar problems of multilevel governance of networks of third-party payers and providers, each system also gives rise to its own distinct regulatory challenges.

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The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy

Helderman

Bevan

France

2012

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“…Type I multi-level governance describes system-wide governing arrangements in which the dispersion of authority is restricted to a limited number of clearly defined, non-overlapping jurisdictions at a limited number of territorial levels, each of which has responsibility for a 'bundle' of functions. By contrast, Type II multi-level governance describes governing arrangements in which the jurisdiction of authority is task-specific, where jurisdictions operate at numerous territorial levels and may be overlapping (Marks and Hooghe 2004). In Type I, authority is relatively stable, but in Type II it is more flexible to deal with the changing demands of governance (Table 1).…”

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Europeanization and multi‐level governance: EU cohesion policy and pre‐accession aid in Southeast Europe

Bache

2010

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This opening contribution provides the framework for discussion for the case studies that follow. It outlines the key concepts employed -simple and compound polities, Europeanization and multi-level governance -and explains the origins and development of EU cohesion policy and related pre-accession instruments. It concludes by summarizing the main themes and issues addressed in the subsequent contributions.

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“…Thus 'hierarchy' in the multilevel governance context should be interpreted in the sense that it challenges the anarchical character of the international system -hence in terms of Waltz's (1979) anarchy versus hierarchy dichotomy. Hooghe and Marks (Hooghe and Marks, 2001b;Marks and Hooghe, 2004) indeed distinguish between multilevel governance-visions type I and type II, with the latter connoting a patchwork of polycentric authorities (far from hierar-chical) and the former coming close to federalism (hence more hierarchical, with authority moving both upwards and downwards). They emphasize that these types should be considered distinct, but not mutually exclusive.…”

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The Future of Sovereignty in Multilevel Governance Europe ‐ A Constructivist Reading

Aalberts

2004

J of Common Market Studies

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Multilevel governance presents a depiction of contemporary structures in EU Europe as consisting of overlapping authorities and competing competencies. By focusing on emerging non-anarchical structures in the international system, hence moving beyond the conventional hierarchy/anarchy dichotomy to distinguish domestic and international arenas, this seems a radical transformation of the familiar Westphalian system and to undermine state sovereignty. Paradoxically, however, the principle of sovereignty proves to be resilient despite its alleged empirical decline. This article argues that social constructivism can explain the paradox, by considering sovereign statehood as a process-dependent institutional fact, and by showing that multilevel governance can feed into this process.

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Contrasting Visions of Multi-level Governance

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The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy

The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of the Netherlands, England and Italy

Europeanization and multi‐level governance: EU cohesion policy and pre‐accession aid in Southeast Europe

The Future of Sovereignty in Multilevel Governance Europe ‐ A Constructivist Reading

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