Unraveling the Central State, but How? Types of Multi-level Governance

Hooghe, Liesbet; Marks, Gary

doi:10.1017/s0003055403000649

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“…In terms of the multi-scalar nature of climate change, scholars note that planning and management boundaries are crossed horizontally-i.e., across political boundaries-and vertically among hierarchies of government (Hooghe & Marks, 2003). For example, climate action around water issues in Dutch cities is largely the responsibility of regional water boards, but municipalities are responsible for interrelated land use planning decisions, and provincial and national agencies for higher-level water system planning and decision-making (Uittenbroek, Janssen-Jansen, & Runhaar, 2013).…”

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The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario

Chu

Schenk

Patterson

2018

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Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies involved, the extent to which these planning tools equip cities to realise 1.5°C climate change scenarios is unclear. This article draws upon emerging knowledge in the fields of urban planning and urban climate governance to explore complementary insights into how cities can pursue ambitious and inclusive climate action to realise 1.5°C climate change scenarios. We observe that urban planning scholarship is often under-appreciated in urban climate governance research, while conversely, promising urban planning tools and approaches can be limited by the contested realities of urban climate governance. By thematically reviewing diverse examples of urban climate action across the globe, we identify three key categories of planning dilemmas: institutional heterogeneity, scalar mismatch, and equity and justice concerns. We argue that lessons from urban planning and urban climate governance scholarship should be integrated to better understand how cities can realise 1.5°C climate change scenarios in practice.

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Section: Spatial and Scalar Dilemmasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario

Chu

Schenk

Patterson

2018

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“…The debate on regime fragmentation is itself however rather fragmented, with discussions circling around various scientific concepts [see also [9]]. While some authors refer to terminologies used by others, few make conceptual links between the different approaches.…”

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Integrative environmental governance: enhancing governance in the era of synergies

Visseren-Hamakers

2015

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…To put in in another way: their approach is focussed on understanding institutional dynamics and "polity structuring" (Piattoni 2010: 22), but less on explaining governance and policy-making under the conditions of a vertical allocation of powers. Their suggestion to link research on EU multilevel governance to comparative federalism (Hooghe and Marks 2003) highlights a way to extend the perspective.…”

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“…Nevertheless, this particular model of a federation is not utterly idealistic and it caught the attention of scholars interested in comparative research. Aiming at an analytical concept for EU multilevel governance, Hooghe and Marks (2003) suggested that, in contrast to territorial federalism, functional federalism should be considered as particularly relevant in governance beyond the nation state.…”

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

Benz¹,

Zimmer²

2010

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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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. This Living Review article summarises research on the relations between the EU and the national and sub-national levels of the member states, in particular on the evolution and division of competences in a multilevel political system. It reviews normative reasons justifying an appropriate allocation of competences, empirical theories explaining effective structures of powers and empirical research.The article is structured as follows: First, normative theories of a European federation are discussed. Section 2 deals with legal and political concepts of federalism and presents approaches of the economic theory of federalism in the context of the European polity. These 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 in so far as they explain the transfer of competence from the national to the European level or the limits of this centralistic dynamics. Moreover, we include empirical studies on the effective vertical allocation of powers in the EU.Normative and empirical theories reveal that most powers are sharing rather than separated between levels. Therefore, article therefore concludes that politics and policy-making in the EU have to be regarded as multilevel governance. In Section 4, we summarise the main theoretical approaches and findings from empirical research on European multilevel governance. In the conclusion, we sketch some suggestions for further discussion and research in the field (Section 5).

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Unraveling the Central State, but How? Types of Multi-level Governance

Cited by 543 publications

References 75 publications

The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario

The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario

Integrative environmental governance: enhancing governance in the era of synergies

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

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