Relations Revisited: A Nuanced Approach To Types Of Multilevel Governance
Relations Revisited: A Nuanced Approach To Types Of Multilevel Governance

Summary/Abstract: Inter-governmental relations are often complex and multi-layered, and this has become more evident as countries increasingly move to share power and responsibility, often with shifts both upward, sometimes to supra-national institutions, and downward, to local governmental levels. However, different governments have had to deal with this pressure in different ways, with different bases as their starting points. Federal states, as they were set up in a manner that already divided powers between several levels of government, have a different reference point in dealing with intergovernmental relations in policy areas than a government that does not have a significant historical base for sharing jurisdictions among several levels.

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