The book ranges across the domestic context, supraregionalism and global governance all filtered through a sophisticated analytical framework and attention to policy detail. This comprehensive Handbook takes stock of the vast array of multi-level governance theory and research developed in subfields of political science and public policy, and as such will provide an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers and students with a special interest in public policy, regulation and governance.

This Handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts.

European integration is considered from its unique standpoint as the key catalyst in the development of multi-level approaches, and the use of multi-level governance in other parts of the world, at both domestic and regional levels, is also considered in detail before focus is shifted towards global governance.
The Handbook concludes with a presentation of six policy fields and instruments affected by multi-level governance, including: social policy, environmental policy, economic policy, international taxation, standard-setting and policing.

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
PART I ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
1 Types of multi- level governance
2 Federalism and optimal allocation across levels of governance
3 Multi-level games
4 Multi-level Europe - the case for multiple concepts
5 Global governance as multi- level governance
PART II MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT
6 Subnational participation in national decisions: the role of second chambers
7 Multi-level governance, decentralization and fiscal federalism
8 Multi-level party competition in federal and regional states
9 Multi-level governance and organized interests
10 Multi-level governance in Germany and Switzerland
11 Multi-level governance in Canadian and American intergovernmental relations
PART III THE EU AS A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM
12 The institutional framework of the European Union
13 The European Union as a loosely coupled multi-level system
14 Party politics in the European Union
15 Multi-level governance and parliaments in the European Union
16 Regions and the European Union
PART IV MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM
17 Multi-level governance and comparative regionalism
18 Multi-modal governance in North America
19 Multi-level governance in post-Soviet Eurasia: problems and promises
20 Multi-level governance the ASEAN Way
PART V GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
21 The changing role of the United Nations: lessons for multi-level governance
22 Global governance through legislation
23 Transgovernmental networks and multi-level governance
24 Global governance through public-private partnerships
25 Civil society in multi-level governance
PART VI POLICY AREAS
26 Social policy and multi-level governance
27 Multi-level environmental governance
28 Economic policy-making and multi-level governance
29 International taxation and multi-level governance
30 Standards for global markets: domestic and international institutions
31 International policing: embedding the state monopoly of force
Index

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