Multilevel governance is the dispersion of authority to jurisdictions within and beyond national states. Three literatures frame the study of multilevel governance. Economists and public policy analysts explain multilevel governance as a functionalist adaptation to the provision…
by Marks, Gary, Hooghe, Liesbet
fromTransformation in governance
The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by functional and communal pressures. Functional pressures arise from the character of the public goods provided by government: their scale economies, externalities, and informational asymmetries. However, to explain demands f…
by Marks, Gary, Hooghe, Liesbet
fromTransformations in governance
This is the second of five volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that juristictional design is shaped …
This text is written for those interested in the character, causes and consequences of governance within the state. It argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional pressures that arise from the logic of scale in providing public goods and by the preferences that…
