Multi-level Governance and Institutional Change

Download or read book Multi-level Governance and Institutional Change written by Enrico Gualini and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining Italian policies and patterns of state-local relationships, this book analyzes the impact of reform of EU regional and cohesion policies. Providing a contextual overview of European policy integration, it focuses on how the development of transnational policy making affect the relationships between nation-state and supra-national institutions. In doing so, it questions traditional assumptions of territorial sovereignty and introduces new factors of policy reform and institutional change.