Regionalisierung und Dezentralisierung gelten als Strategien staatlicher Modemisierung.
Sie verweisen beide auf einen Prozeß der Veränderung politischer Strukturen. Während …

One of the major puzzles for contemporary political science is how and to what extent states
centralise competences or, on the contrary, shift powers to local, regional, European or …

The modernization paradigm, which for many decades dominated agricultural practices,
policies and science, is gradually being replaced by a rural development paradigm. The …

While implementation through multilevel governance (MLG) has often been found to have
achieved limited success, the literature agrees that further studies are required to investigate …

This book examines the theory and praxis of the legal concept of subsidiarity and the policy
paradigm of multilevel governance, providing an updated overview on how subnational and …

The international dimension of cities and their role in inter‐urban markets and inter‐urban
competition are now often studied and analysed from the perspective of public policy, urban …

Policymaking in the German federal system is influenced by the dynamic interplay of the
institutions of cooperative federalism, of party competition in a parliamentary system, and of …

Recently,'new modes of governance'based on voluntary performance standards, rather than
compulsory regulation, have gained salience in European Union governance. Can …

This article considers the extent to which European Union (EU) cohesion policy and related
pre-accession instruments are contributing to the development of more compound polities in …

Multi-level governance appeared in the 1990s as a concept which sought to capture the
changing relationships between different territorial levels of government in the EU. The …