Multilevel governance: Identity, political contestation, and policy

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and p...

Identity and Foreign Policy

Multilevel Governance and Development

In this paper we explore the discourses of ecology, environmental economics, new environmental pragmatism and social ecological economics as they relate to the value of ecosystems and biodiversity. Conceptualizing biodiversity and ecosystems as goods and services that can be represented by monetary values in policy processes is an economic discourse being increasingly championed by ecologists a...

Policy entrepreneurs, multilevel governance and policy networks in the European polity: The case of the EUREGIO

The article addresses the question how the European Commission can achieve successful policy implementation in a system that is characterised by loose multi-level policy networks and the absence of hierarchical command structures. This is shown with the example of EU regional policy, and cross-border co-operation in particular. The main argument is that the system relies on successful grassroot...

It’s Political: How the Salience of One’s Political Identity Changes Climate Change Beliefs and Policy Support