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"This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers' reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance.
It challenges the tendency of the multilevel governance literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement for promoting policy convergence. In doing so, it explores the functioning of the reception component of the Common European Asylum System in centralised states and federal/regional states and analyses its implementation at both national and local levels. The book reveals the heterogeneous development of reception policies not only across Member States but also within each country where solutions adopted at the local level generally diverge substantially. Furthermore, the overall centralization of policymaking on reception regardless the institutional structure, seems to leave little room for MLG arrangements tailored to specific localities and triggers tensions between central governments and local authorities.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration and asylum studies, immigration, (multilevel) global governance and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies/politics, and public policy."

Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood. Especially misunderstood is the problem of how the multiple motivations or incentives of competing policy actors in conflictual situations affect their structures of interaction, as this issue has not been studied systematically. This book aims to address the following research questions: how do policy stakeholders cope strategically with collective action or environmental conflict resolution? How do they utilize or maintain formal and informal policy networks to resolve problems effectively? What motivates them to engage or be involved in collaborative or conflictual networks? What influences their networking or their decisions on partner selection for conflict resolution? This book consists of four studies. The goal of the first study is to examine the form of a policy network by focusing on how policy networks emerge and evolve at the micro-level to solve collective action dilemmas endemic to decentralized and democratized policy decision-making processes, particularly in the environmental conflict resolution arena. The goal of the second study is to examine the main policy actors and structural characteristics of network governance evolution in the dynamic process of environmental conflict resolution. The goal of the third study is to highlight the role of policy tie formality in the evolution of multiplex ties in the environmental conflict resolution process. The goal of the fourth study is to demonstrate the relationships between patterns of interactions among policy actors and their modified and adjusted strategic behaviours within policy networks and across advocacy coalitions.

Voorwoord Préface Les nouveaux concepts du Code des sociétés et des associations et leurs incidences pour les institutions financières (D. Szafran) Impact van het WVV op de beleidsstructuur van kredietinstellingen, verzekeringsondernemingen en beleggingsondernemingen (S. Kierszenbaum en N. De Waele) L'impact du CSA sur la structure de gouvernance des sociétés de gestion d'OPC et d'OPCA, des établissements de paiement, des établissements de monnaie électronique et de certaines autres institutions financières (V. Marquette et S. Delwaide) Het WVV en de governance van financiële instellingen: continuïteit als uitgangspunt. Het statuut van de bestuurder, de onafhankelijke bestuurder en de werking van de comités - Wat is de concrete impact van het WVV? (M. Wyckaert en S. Declercq) Het Wetboek Vennootschappen en Verenigingen vanuit toezichtsperspectief (A. Rombouts) De kapitaalloze BV en haar schuldeisers (L. Thijs) Augmentations de capital dans les sociétés cotées, clauses de changement de contrôle et assistance financière (T. L'Homme, Ch.-A. Leunen et J. Filbiche) Le financement des sociétés non-cotées via capital/capitaux propres : points d'attention et questions pratiques (B. Feron et A. Pasdermadjian) De impact van het WVV op de financiering van ondernemingen via obligaties (I. Peeters en S. Jonckheere) La société cotée dans le CSA (M. Fyon et V. Pokorny)

In recent decades there has been an exponential increase in large hydroelectric plants in Brazil, especially in the Amazon region. These large hydraulic structures impact the environment and the lives of people living in the places where they settle and require a special type of water governance. The dictatorial regime (1964-1985) created a "standard" for the construction of these great structures, through an institutional and legal framework, which benefited the Brazilian business elite but also, through the creation of a popular imagination, which shows itself lasting progress on the country's progress and development. The suspension of security, the fragility of institutional environmental structures, the disrespect for indigenous reserves, the lack of clarity about the concept of "affected population" and the non-payment of fair compensation were identified as one of the main challenges for a democratic water governance in the country. In the late 1970s, the Dam-Affected Movement (MAB) began its organizat

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Look at Governance Throughout Africa -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Africa's Development Goals -- 1.2.1 African Union Agenda 2063 -- 1.2.2 United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals -- 1.3 Governance Structures in Africa -- 1.3.1 The African Union -- 1.3.2 African Policy Framework Relevant to Governance -- 1.3.3 New Partnership for Africa's Development -- 1.3.4 African Peer Review Mechanism -- 1.3.5 African Continental Free Trade Area -- 1.4 Challenges Facing Governance Within Africa -- 1.4.1 Corruption -- 1.4.2 Weak Democratic Institutions -- 1.4.3 Limited Data Coverage and Openness -- 1.4.4 Poor Civil Registration and Vital Statistics -- 1.5 Current Governance Levels in Africa -- 1.5.1 African Peer Review Mechanism African Governance Report 2019 -- 1.5.2 Mo Ibrahim Foundation-Ibrahim Index of African Governance -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 2 E-Governance in Africa and the World -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 United Nations 2018 E-Governance Report -- 2.2.1 Global Trends and Africa's Performance in the 2018 UN E-Government Survey -- 2.2.2 Prerequisites for E-Government Implementation -- 2.2.3 Ensuring Inclusive E-Governance -- 2.2.4 Cybersecurity Issues Associated with E-Government -- 2.3 Emerging Technologies in the E-Government Sector -- 2.3.1 Blockchain -- 2.3.2 E-Voting -- 2.3.3 Digital Government -- 2.4 Specific E-Government Applications and Case Studies -- 2.4.1 Exemplary E-Government Applications in the Developed World -- 2.4.2 Exemplary E-Government Applications in the Developing World -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Space Supporting Governance Through Connectivity and Communication -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Current Geostationary Internet Technologies -- 3.2.1 Technical Attributes -- 3.2.2 Cost and Availability of Geostationary-Based Internet in Africa.

"This timely book provides an astute assessment of the institutional and constitutional boundaries, interactions and tensions between the different levels of governance in EU criminal justice. Probing the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the EU's approach to transnational crime, it proposes improved mechanisms for public participation in the governance of EU criminal law, designed to ensure better transparency, accountability and democratic controls. Influential scholars from across Europe analyse key practical challenges to the governance of EU criminal law in the context of specific crimes, including financial crime, cybercrime and environmental crime. Offering sector-specific perspectives on tackling transnational crime, insightful chapters examine the potential options for criminal-law cooperation between the EU and the UK after Brexit, and consider to what extent these avenues may represent enhanced mechanisms for the governance of transnational crimes and common security threats in the future. This important study will prove crucial reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students examining EU, transnational and comparative criminal law, as well as European integration studies and constitutional law more broadly. Practitioners and policy-makers working in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice will also benefit from this book's practical insights into the mechanisms of EU law and justice"--

The political economy of the European social dimension -- Governance in advanced European integration -- EU economic governance and Europe -- Analysing the politics of the European semester -- Explaining outcomes of the European semester -- The European social deficit.

INTRODUCTION -- PART I GENERAL QUESTIONS OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 1 Geography of transboundary water governance -- Chapter 2 Theories of transboundary water governance -- Chapter 3 Laws of transboundary water governance -- Chapter 4 Institutions of transboundary water governance -- Chapter 5 Emerging challenges to transboundary water governance -- PART II TRANSBOUNDARY WATER GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: AN OVERVIEW -- Chapter 1 Transboundary river basins in the European Union and the impacts of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 2 Transboundary water governance in the European Union -- PART III THE RESILIENCE OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 1 Why, what, how? – The assessment framework -- Chapter 2 The resilience of transboundary water governance within the European Union: a legal and institutional analysis -- Chapter 3 Adaptive capacity of EU transboundary water Governance: the dynamic dimension of resilience -- PART IV CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Charles Lees describes the planning and execution of the Economic and Social Research Council research project (with Andrew Taylor, Andrew Geddes, and Ian Bache) "Multi-Level Governance in South East Europe: Institutional Innovation and Adaptation in Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, and Slovenia" (ESRC response mode RES-062-23-0183). Lees describes the rationale for the research; the research design, choice of cases, research questions, and hypotheses; the management of fieldwork; and how the team set up and operationalized their method of Social Network Analysis. Lees assesses the team's use of Social Network Analysis and finishes with four key conclusions he has drawn from the experience that are relevant to all research projects, including PhD theses.