This unique collection brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to assess and critique the key concept of multi-level governance. This is a concept which has been widely adopted to explain the changing nature of domestic and international politics ever since its early application to the EU.

• 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

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.'