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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"multi-level governance"”.
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Contracting sustainable and responsible energy investment: trends, actors and grass-roots innovations for multi-level governance
… of a broader framework of global energy governance. These instruments are, in many ways, beyond the radar of most academics researching this field. This thesis seeks to address this research gap. It relies on fresh data sets compiled for this specific purpose and includes three primary …
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Co-creating forevers : stories of multi-level governance for implementation of rural development projects in India
In my thesis, I study systems of governance, and actors, involved in the implementation of social audits and digitized wage payments in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Andhra and Telangana, India. Theoretically, I begin by looking at Stoker's propositions of …
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The EUrope of Differentiated Territorial Integration? Regional Cross-Border Governance in the Multi-Level Governance System of the EU. A Case Study of the EUSALP and the EUSDR
Netzwerke der Regional Cross-Border Governance haben in der EU insbesondere in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten einen spürbaren Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren. Sie stellen hochkomplexe Governancestrukturen dar und bieten für beteiligte Akteure einen großen Mehrwert. Die EUSDR und EUSALP sind eine …
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The Role of Local Government in Shaping and Influencing International Policy Frameworks
… of these regimes through the development of multi-level governance as a framework of analysis. The thesis extends multi-level governance as a theoretical framework in two ways. First, it does so by going beyond its usual development and application within the European Union. The role of local …
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The security-identity nexus in Euro-Atlantic integration: rethinking multi-scalar governance
This dissertation presents a multi-faceted and nuanced study of the multi-level governance of the Euro-Atlantic arena, or the area covered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. Using various methods of qualitative data collection and analysis, including documentary …
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Accountability and regulatory governance in a cross-jurisdictional market: a case study of the all-island energy market (Ireland)
… accountability is central to democratic governance. As regulatory institutions and their associated governance arrangements have become more complex, and decision-making ever more distant from the citizen, it is imperative that such institutions and the actors within them are accountable …
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The city as an agent for European integration: Tackling social exclusion in greater Paris
… the European Union through Path Dependence and Multi-Level Governance analysis. The EU community initiatives in the Ile-de-France region illustrate how the European Union developed social cohesion programs to transform social exclusion issues into a supranational tool to build a more cohesive …
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The impact of government decentralisation on the development and implementation of benefit-sharing laws in Kenya's extractive sector
… benefits from resource extraction among multiple entities is a subject of considerable interest in natural resource law. Drawing mainly but not exclusively from international human rights and environmental law, this study explores the nature, core content and models of benefit sharing in …
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What does it mean to belong? An analysis of migrant integration policies in Germany, Spain, and Hungary
… EU policies are created at the supranational level, when it comes to issues like migration, states are allowed to exercise a generous amount of sovereignty. Although the EU does encourage migrant integration, the degree to which migrants are able to integrate socially, economically, and …
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Three "Eurocities": Objectives for cross-border cooperation at the Hispano-Luso border
… the midst of disparate societies, economies and governance structures. This research project investigates the objectives of three such initiatives at the border of Spain and Portugal, the unique but overlooked “Eurocity” projects, whose lead actors make bold claims of representing the “second …
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The Impact of Protest on Policy-Making in the European Union
… of Europe impacts policy-making at the EU level. While many scholars have theorised the potentially constraining effect of the increasing politicisation of Europe over the last three decades, empirical examinations that seek to shed light on the actual consequences of mass politicisation …
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Urban Green Assemblage: A Machinic-MLG Approach to Green Cities
… city agenda in its presumptive context of a multi-level governance often characterised by humans enacting upon the city infrastructure. Through the case study of Singapore, a city that is allegedly ‘green’, the research seeks to go beyond human-centric, static, and dichotomous approaches, and …
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The community and the problems of rural society
… rural decline are instigated and evolve at the level of local communities as well as within the greater multi-level governance system. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias, the dissertation project gives a relational and processual account of the contingent historical and …
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The Governance of Anaerobic Digestion in the United Kingdom: Insights from England and Scotland
The role of governance has received considerable attention within the academic literature on sustainability transitions. However, extant theory in this respect has focused on managing and steering sustainability transitions, while referring mainly to the national level of government, so it has yet …
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The unwritten rules of the game : a case study of European funding distribution in Wales
… are developed and funds are distributed. Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is evident in the overarching structures supporting the interactions between Wales and the European Commission. The study critically analyses the significant pressures upon the development of funding instruments, and …
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Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union: the open method of coordination and the 2011-2014 work plan for culture
… with insights from the literatures on multi-level governance and policy learning. It uses a combination of research methods including document analysis, interviews with key actors, and participant observation, ultimately leading to new insights into the processes and practices of EU …
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The Implications of Wicked Problems for the Legitimacy of European Environmental Policy Development. The case of Environmental Risks from the Pharmaceutical Endocrine Disrupter, 17α-Ethinyl Oestradiol under the European Water Framework Directive
… rejected the European Commission’s risk governance recommendations for EE2 in 2013 under the Water Framework Directive. This comprises its principal empirical contribution. A novel analytical framework which draws on insights from the policy sciences, risk governance and wicked problems …
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Spatial practices of governing carbon.
… explored the role of cities in climate change governance, few have engaged theoretically and empirically with debates around the spatial politics of carbon reduction. This thesis helps to fill this gap, and contributes to conceptual debates around low-carbon transitions and the political …
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Consociationalism and equality within the European Union: a socio-legal study of community identity and gender in Northern Ireland and Belgium
… is used.<br/><br/>The conclusion shows that the multi-level governance structures, equality frameworks created over multiple levels, the presence of consociationalism and the nature of the divisions being examined all combine in specific ways to bear a differential impact on the lived experiences …
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