Vertical epistemic communities in multilevel governance

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy in higher education

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy formulate a critique against too-narrowly defined approaches to governance, where governance follows onesidedly bureaucratic or technocratic considerations. Instead, epistemic governance (also quality management and quality enhancement) and epistemic innovation policy should be regarded as a plea for a more comprehensive understanding, where ...

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...

Multilevel Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Theories of multilevel governance in International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) literature remain in their infancy. These nascent conceptualisations of multilevel governance suffer from a number of methodological, theoretical and practical flaws. In the main these derive from an excessive reliance upon state centred understandings of political geography engendered by...

The Economics of Multilevel Governance

This paper proposes a framework for analyzing governance in terms of centralization vs. decentralization of the provision of an order to a given community. It is the main tradeoff behind many issues related to the organization of the institutions that frame either political activities (constitution and federalism) or the economy (e.g. public vs. private/self regulation). We systematically analy...

The multilevel governance of migration