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Cooperative Administration in Multilevel Governance Analysis: Incorporating Governance Mechanisms into the Concept

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Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance

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The Hagen governance approach consists of three layers. Starting from the base, there are governance mechanisms, governance forms, and governance regimes. While forms and regimes are in the centre of the approach, the governance mechanisms are only loosely connected to the two other layers. In trying to overcome this shortcoming, Dose intends to enhance the analytical strength of the approach. The approach has been effective in identifying deadlocks in the political and administrative process. It can also explain these deadlocks in abstract terms. However, as this chapter argues the governance mechanisms are not wholly suitable for a thorough analysis on the micro level. Therefore, Dose adds knowledge from the instrument approach of public policy. Since he provides examples by using a number of small empirical cases that he groups into a typology, this knowledge can help to gain some systematic insights into the strategies, which might help to deal with deadlocks.

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    It should be noted that negotiation (Verhandlung) is a governance form. Unlike the governance mechanism of bargaining (Verhandeln), this governance form describes structures that direct the process of bargaining (Benz 2006, p. 33; Benz and Dose 2010b, p. 262).

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    Of course, this is also an expression of an increasing degree of politicization of public administration due to unresolved conflicts at the parliamentary level (Benz 1994, p. 49).

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Dose, N. (2019). Cooperative Administration in Multilevel Governance Analysis: Incorporating Governance Mechanisms into the Concept. In: Behnke, N., Broschek, J., Sonnicksen, J. (eds) Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance. Comparative Territorial Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05511-0_5

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