VL IB: European Policy Making

Analyzing European Governance

What is Multi-Level Governance (MLG)? (I)

- Since the mid-90s, MLG as a term has dominated in the academic discourse
- Origins: Gary Marks in the early 90s, later Lisbeth Hooghe
- Together they wrote a couple of seminal articels (96, 01)
- Dispersion of decision-making across multiple territorial Levels
- How have places of authority shifted over the last few decades in the EU?
- Level of authority has gradually moved away from national governments

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