Multi-Level Governance Within and Beyond the State

Abstract

This panel explores recent developments in theorizing government structure on the presumption that it makes sense to treat government from the local to the global level as a coherent phenomenon. The notion that government can be understood across scale reflects efforts by international relations scholars and comparativists to build conceptual bridges across the international/domestic divide. These literatures meet around the idea that authority has become multi-layered, but beyond this lies disagreement. What is the logic of decision making in this new (dis)order? Who is driving the process? And what are the effects for state sovereignty? The papers presented on this panel will engage these questions with systematically collected information on the dynamics of international governance and decentralization within states.

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Why Decentralise Authority? An Analysis of Medium Term Electoral Motives of Government Parties on the Territorial Dimension.	View Paper Details
Cross-Regional Trends in Regional Authority	View Paper Details
Explaining the Salience of Decentralisation in Party Competition	View Paper Details
The Emergence of ‘Welfare Regions’ in Italy. Assessing and Explaining Cross-Regional Variation	View Paper Details