Sub‐National Mobilization and European Integration: Does it Make any Difference?

2000/03/01 by Charlie Jeffery · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #European Union Policy and Governance #Political Systems and Governance #Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

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Abstract

Work on multi‐level governance has refashioned conceptions in politicalscience of EU politics and policy‐making, giving due weight for the first timeto the importance of sub‐national actors. This article builds on the pioneeringcontributions on multi‐level governance by Gary Marks and others to developa framework for analysis rooted in the functions of sub‐national authorities intheir domestic political contexts. This domestic politics approach to multi‐level governance is then developed, through consideration of a series ofvariables, to address a question which has rarely been posed hitherto: do theEU‐focused activities of sub‐national governments actually make any differencein the structure of authoritative decision‐making in the EU?

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