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Liesbet Hooghe is associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gary Marks is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Center for European Studies.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Multi-level Governance in the European Union
Part 3 Part I: Sources of Multi-level Governance
Chapter 4 A Historical Perspective
Chapter 5 Multiple Identities
Chapter 6 Why National Leaders Diffuse Authority
Part 7 Part II: Multi-Level Governance with the Regions
Chapter 8 Variations in Cohesion Policy
Chapter 9 Cohesion Policy Under Threat
Chapter 10 Channels to Europe
Part 11 Part III:Contestation in a Multi-Level Polity
Chapter 12 The Struggle over European Integration
Chapter 13 Supranationalism Contested in the Commission
Chapter 14 Political Parties Take a Stand
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index
Chapter 17 Appendices
This is the book for which many have waited. Over the last decade, the authors, singly and jointly, have published a series of fascinating articles that challenged the conventional dichotomy of intergovernmental and supranational interpretations of European Union politics. The present volume synthesizes and extends these analyses, demonstrating not only the superior plausibility and internal consistency of the multi-level perspective, but also the wide range of research questions to which it can be usefully applied. Among the highlights are not only definitive accounts of the rise and decline of multi-level cohesion policies, but also sophisticated analyses of multiple identifications at the level of constituencies and of divergent orientations toward European integration among Commission officials and among national political parties. Altogether, this volume combines a wealth of empirical information with incisive analyses that are integrated in a convincing theoretical framework. A must for every student of European Union politics.
— Fritz Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Hooghe and Marks have ingeniously expanded multilevel governance as a frame for understanding the dynamic politics of the European Union. This volume, building on their previous work, brings together an assessment of the changing spatial politics of the EU with the analysis of competing fornms of capitalism. In so doing they provoke us to rethink the roles of political institutions in western Europe.
— Helen Wallace, European University Institute
This is a contribution to the de-mystification of the European Union. Rather than emphasizing the sui generis aspect of the EU, Hooghe and Marks argue that politics in the Union can be understood in terms of the ordinary tools of comparative politics. The book is an invitation for area specialists and generalists to join hands in understanding the most exciting current political experiment in the world.
— Johan Olsen, University of Oslo
This is a welcome and timely addition to debates on European integration.
— Political Studies Review
The value of this volume is that it demonstrates how political analysis can be employed to understand development of European governance and policy in the context of sub-national forces.
— Local Government Studies
For those who still cannot believe that the once-familiar sovereign European national-state is a thing of the past, the authors of this work clearly, forcefully, and inexorably demonstrate that such indeed is the case. They develop, illustrate, and document the practice in Europe of multi-level governance: decisionmaking that combines the efforts of supranational, national, and subnational (regional) institutions and politicians in such a way that no single level succeeds in dominating the other two. More important, they show incontrovertibly that multi-level governance is an unplanned adaptation to contemporary conditions. Politicians may welcome it as an inescapablesecond-best rational solution to problems on their agendas. The work combines restrained argumentation with encyclopedic knowledge of facts, theories and specialized literature.
— Ernst B. Haas, University of California, Berkeley
This is the book for which many have waited. Over the last decade, the authors, singly and jointly, have published a series of fascinating articles that challenged the conventional dichotomy of "intergovernmental" and "supranational" interpretations of European Union politics. The present volume synthesizes and extends these analyses, demonstrating not only the superior plausibility and internal consistency of the multi-level perspective, but also the wide range of research questions to which it canbe usefully applied. Among the highlights are not only definitive accounts of the rise and decline of multi-level cohesion policies, but also sophisticated analyses of multiple identifications at the level of constituencies and of divergent orientations toward European integration among Commission officials and among national political parties. Altogether, this volume combines a wealth of empirical information with incisive analyses that are integrated in a convincing theoretical framework. A must for every student of European Union politics.
— Fritz Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne