Two types of multi‐level governance: Intergovernmental relations in German and EU regional policy

Benz, Arthur

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“…Veto rights are by far not the only manner of institutionalised interaction between administrative authorities (see Table 2). In today's reality all political systems are subject to a wide range of specific intergovernmental coordination mechanisms (Benz, 2000;Crepaz, 2002;Wälti, 2004). The different types of institutionally established cooperation between several administrative authorities from Table 2 Objective unlikelihood of being granted to a ‚capital authority'…”

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The ‘Governance-Check’: Assessing the sustainability of public spatial decision-making structures

Mauerhofer

2013

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The ‘Governance-Check’: Assessing the sustainability of public spatial decision-making structures

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2013

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“…Finally, the Commission -as an independent agenda setter and administration -can moderate distributive conflicts. Therefore, in a comparative perspective, the EU has been labelled as a loosely coupled multilevel system (Benz 2000(Benz , 2003. Adrienne Héritier (1999) showed in a series of case studies that actors in EU policy-making find ways to escape imminent situations of deadlock by changing patterns of interaction or by using flexibilities of complex institutional settings and inter-institutional processes.…”

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The EU’s competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel system

Benz¹,

Zimmer²

2008

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This Living Review deals with the division of competences between the EU and its member states in a multilevel political system. The article summarises research on the relations between the EU and the national and sub-national levels of the member states. It provides an overview on normative and theoretical concepts and empirical research. From the outset, European integration was about the transfer of powers from the national to the European level, which evolved as explicit bargaining among governments or as an incremental drift. This process was reframed with the competence issue entering the agenda of constitutional policy. It now concerns the shape of the European multilevel polity as a whole, in particular the way in which powers are allocated, delimited and linked between the different levels.The article is structured as follows: First of all, normative theories of a European federation are discussed. Section 2 deals with different concepts of federalism and presents approaches of the economic theory of federalism in the context of the European polity. The normative considerations conclude with a discussion of the subsidiarity principle and the constitutional allocation of competences in the European Treaties. Section 3 covers the empirical issue of how to explain the actual allocation of competences (scope and type) between levels. Integration theories are presented here only in so far as they explain the transfer of competence from the national to the European level or the limits of this centralistic dynamics.Normative and empirical theories indeed provide some general guidelines and conclusions on the allocation of competences in the EU, but they both contradict the assumption of a separation of competences. The article therefore concludes that politics and policy-making This review is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Austria License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/at/ 2 Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer in the EU have to be regarded as multilevel governance (Section 4). The main theoretical approaches and results from empirical research on European multilevel governance are presented before the article concludes with recommendations for further discussion and research in the field (Section 5). Following Fritz Scharpf, it is recommended that research on the vertical allocation of competences and the application of shared competences in the European multilevel governance should stop searching for holistic approaches (grand theory) explaining unique features of the European political system; instead, research will best succeed when relying on a variety of simpler theories and models to describe European governance modes.Living Reviews in European Governance http://www.livingreviews.org /lreg-2008-3 How to cite this article Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we recommend to cite the article as follows:Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer, "The EU's competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel sy...

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“…A second issue that arises in connection with the distinctiveness of these various levels of authority is whether or not the regional and international spheres should be analysed separately This reflects the fierce debate about the significance of the EU for established concepts in political science, in particular whether the EU should be seen as a genuinely novel form of political organization (Ruggie 1993c) or whether, as the neo-functionalist and liberal intergovernmentalist approaches suggest, it is merely a glorified form of international organization, a 'Europe of the nations' (Benz 2000). The truth lies somewhere between the two.…”

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“…2 This also pertains to the arena in which the concept of multi-level governance has been most widely debated and developed, the European Union (EU). The EU is often invoked as the exemplar of multi-level governance and has been the basis for much theorizing in recent years (Scharpf 1997(Scharpf , 2001Smith 1997;Martin and Pearce 1999;Benz 2000;Brugue, Goma and Subirats 2000;Ekengren and Jacobsson 2000;Sutcliffe 2000;Reigner 2001). The problem is that research has tended to focus on relations between nation-states (the intergovernmental approach-which conceptualizes the EU as a single level of intergovernmental relations arguably denying the EU's claim to be a multi-level polity) or on relations between different levels of government (subsidiarity).…”

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2005

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Two types of multi‐level governance: Intergovernmental relations in German and EU regional policy

Cited by 66 publications

References 20 publications

The ‘Governance-Check’: Assessing the sustainability of public spatial decision-making structures

The ‘Governance-Check’: Assessing the sustainability of public spatial decision-making structures

The EU’s competences: The 'vertical' perspective on the multilevel system

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