Governance reconsidered: The redistribution of authority in the European arena
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description: "There is a process occurring across states in the European Union which can best be described and explained through a conceptualization of ""redistribution of authority,"" which takes into account decision-making authority shifting among three levels of governance: supranational, national (central state) and subnational. Authority has been redistributed to governmental and non-governmental actors at levels below the central state and above it, due to a variety of political, economic and social factors that both converge and work at cross purposes to drive the process. The result of this process of redistribution is a complex, dynamic system of governance in which networks of interdependent, autonomous actors at all levels interact with one another through a variety of channels to make and implement decisions. Current theories used to study the European Union and integration are incapable of explaining the process of redistribution, its dynamics, or its causes and consequences."
abstract: "There is a process occurring across states in the European Union which can best be described and explained through a conceptualization of ""redistribution of authority,"" which takes into account decision-making authority shifting among three levels of governance: supranational, national (central state) and subnational. Authority has been redistributed to governmental and non-governmental actors at levels below the central state and above it, due to a variety of political, economic and social factors that both converge and work at cross purposes to drive the process. The result of this process of redistribution is a complex, dynamic system of governance in which networks of interdependent, autonomous actors at all levels interact with one another through a variety of channels to make and implement decisions. Current theories used to study the European Union and integration are incapable of explaining the process of redistribution, its dynamics, or its causes and consequences."
author: Bukowski, Jeanie J.
language: eng
keywords: Political Science, International Law and Relations
date published: 2011-05-07T13:07:47Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:17Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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