Table of Contents

1: Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders: Themes and Issues in Multi-level Governance
Part 1: Theory
2: Gary Marks and Liesbet Hooghe: Contrasting Visions of Multi-level Governance
3: James N. Rosenau: Strong Demand, Huge Supply: Governance in an Emerging Epoch
4: Bob Jessop: Multi-level Governance and Multi-level Metagovernance
5: B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre: Multi-level Governance and Democracy: A Faustian Bargain?
Part 2: Levels
6: Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders: Multi-level Governance and British Politics
7: Stephen George: Multi-level Governance and the European Union
8: Stephen Welch and Caroline Kennedy-Pipe: Multi-level Governance and International Relations
Part 3: Sectors
9: Jenny Fairbrass and Andrew Jordan: Multi-level Governance and Environmental Policy
10: Ian Bache: Multi-level Governance and European Union Regional Policy
11: Jonathan Perraton and Peter Wells: Multi-level Governance and Economic Policy
12: Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders: Mulit-level Governance: Conclusions and Implications

About the Author

Matthew Flinders was awarded the Political Studies Association's Richard Rose
Prize 2004.

Judges' Citation
'Dr Flinders has focussed on a set of topics of central
relevance to British Government and politics: the
institutions and mechanisms of accountability and
responsibility. In doing so he has addressed an
interesting and important question in a fresh way. He
has combined a strong sense of the historical
evolution of the conventions of British government
since the mid-nineteenth century; shown how the
contemporary practice of British government has
diverged from the assumptions underlying these now
obsolete conventions; and identified multiple
mechanisms that have been invoked in attempts to fill
the gap left by parliamentary non-accountability. Flinders' publications show the ability to use relevant
concepts to clarify and organize information without
losing sight of ambiguities and complexities.'

Reviews

Bache and Flinders have assembled a valuable booka very good and coherently edited stocktaking of the multi-level governance literature. Journal of Common Market Studies This volume represents an important contribution to the literature dealing with governance in general and would be of benefit to students not only of multi-level governance This book is likely to be of value to researchers and to graduate students in the field of European Union and domestic politics for some years to come. Regional and Federal Studies Even those familiar with the literature on multi-level governance are likely to encounter new theoretical perspectives. Apart from the merits of the individual chapters, the real strength of the book lies in its thematic unity. Unlike many edited volumes, this book is not a collection of separate chapters that happen to be between the covers of the same book. Rather Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders ensure that this edited volume is tightly focused.Given the complexity of the concept this is a considerable achievement. For serious scholars of multi-level governance the book is essential reading' Political Studies Review