Contents: Introduction Michael Zürn, Sonia Wälti and Henrik Enderlein PART I: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. Types of Multi-level Governance Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks 2. Federalism and Optimal Allocation Across Levels of Governance Benny Geys and Kai A. Konrad 3. Multi-level Games Frederick W. Mayer 4. Multi-level Europe – The Case for Multiple Concepts Fritz W. Scharpf 5. Global Governance as Multi-level Governance Michael Zürn PART II: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT 6. Subnational Participation in National Decisions: The Role of Second Chambers Wilfried Swenden 7. Multi-level Governance, Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism Mark Hallerberg 8. Multi-level Party Competition in Federal and Regional States Charlie Jeffery 9. Multi-level Governance and Organized Interests Anke Hassel 10. Multi-level Governance in Germany and Switzerland Dietmar Braun 11. Multi-level Governance in Canadian and American Intergovernmental Relations Michael B. Stein and Lisa Turkewitsch PART III: THE EU AS A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM 12. The Institutional Framework of the European Union Markus Jachtenfuchs 13. The European Union as a Loosely Coupled Multi-level System Arthur Benz 14. Party Politics in the European Union Simon Hix 15. Multi-level Governance and Parliaments in the European Union Berthold Rittberger 16. Regions and the European Union Michael W. Bauer and Tanja A. Börzel PART IV: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM 17. Multi-level Governance and Comparative Regionalism Alberta Sbragia 18. Multi-modal Governance in North America Stephen Clarkson 19. Multi-level Governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Problems and Promises Anastassia Obydenkova 20. Multi-level Governance the ASEAN Way Miranda A. Schreurs PART V: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 21. The Changing Role of the United Nations: Lessons for Multi-level Governance Inge Kaul 22. Global Governance through Legislation Christoph Humrich and Bernhard Zangl 23. Transgovernmental Networks and Multi-level Governance Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas N. Hale 24. Global Governance through Public–Private Partnerships Marianne Beisheim, Sabine Campe and Marco Schäferhoff 25. Civil Society in Multi-level Governance Jan Aart Scholte PART VI: POLICY AREAS 26. Social Policy and Multi-level Governance Alexander Graser and Stein Kuhnle 27. Multi-level Environmental Governance Sonia Wälti 28. Economic Policy-making and Multi-level Governance Henrik Enderlein 29. International Taxation and Multi-level Governance Thomas Rixen 30. Standards for Global Markets: Domestic and International Institutions Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli 31. International Policing: Embedding the State Monopoly of Force Eva Herschinger, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christiane Kraft-Kasack Index

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