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Total quality management: strategies and techniques proven at today's most successful companies
In: The portable MBA series
The European Community: a structuralist perspective
Nationalism, liberalism and the national interest: Britain, France, and the European Community
In: Strathclyde papers on government and politics 67
Britain and Europe since 1945: Historiographical Perspectives on Integration
In: West European politics, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 974-975
ISSN: 0140-2382
Multi-Level Governance and the European Union
Andrew Jordan's (2001b) multifaceted critique of the notion of multi-level governance as it applies to the European Union is examined. Problems with the following four critiques are identified: multi-level governance is simply the combination of existing theories of intergovernmental & supranational relations; the notion provides an adequate description of the European Union but fails to present a theoretical account for integration processes; the autonomy of subnational authorities within multi-level governance systems is exaggerated; & the establishment of a multi-level governance system engenders a top-down understanding of subnational authorities. Nevertheless, it is stressed that three of Jordan's criticisms highlight the current shortcomings with multi-level governance in the contemporary European Union context; for example, it is conceded that multi-level governance indeed emphasizes subnational authorities at the expense of other actors. J. W. Parker
Multi-level Governance and the European Union
In: Multi-level Governance, S. 107-126