Abstract
In this chapter, I delve into scholarly debates on MLG and CNs in more depth to identify key perspectives, promising research avenues and also pitfalls and limitations. In the second part, I build on this literature to propose a new conceptual and analytical framework for the theorisation of the factors and mechanisms underlying the emergence of a CN-MLG nexus. This framework rests on two key premises: (1) a conceptualisation of MLG as a specific instance or mode of policymaking; and (2) an understanding of the city as an arena and of CNs as organisations shaped by actors’ different agendas and perspectives. Taken together, these two premises constitute the background against which I argue for a need to take an actor-centred and relational approach to the analysis of the CN-MLG nexus.
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From the map are excluded forms of advocacy and (interest) group politics that, while targeting governmental authorities, do not imply the establishment of a relationship in the policymaking process. This is the case, for instance, of demonstrations and protests by social movements and also of lobbying activities through which interest groups attempt to promote their positions on specific policy issues.
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Caponio, T. (2022). Multilevel Governance and City Networks. Theorising the Missing Link. In: Making Sense of the Multilevel Governance of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82551-5_2
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