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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MULTILEVEL GOVERNACE

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a. A historical curio or a model of modern governance - which is the more accurate judgement on federalism?

b. What lessons does the American experience with federalism offer to the development of the European Union?

c. How important has the regional level of government become within unitary states?

d. Define multilevel governance and evaluate its usefulness in understanding the European Union.

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch.14.

I. Bache and M. Flinders, eds, Multi-level Governance

M. Burgess and A. Gagnon, eds, Comparative Federalism and Federation

M. Cini, ed., European Union Politics

J. Hesse and V. Wright, eds, Federalizing Europe?

L. Hooghe and G. Marks, Multilevel Governance and European Integration ( Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)

D. Karmis and W. Norman, eds, Theories of Federalism: A Reader

P. Le Galès and C. Lequesne, eds, Regions in Europe

J. Loughlin, Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and

Opportunities

D. McKay, Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience

A. Menon and M. Schain, eds, Comparative Federalism: The European Union and the United States in Comparative Perspective

G. Smith, Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge

A. Stepan, Arguing Comparative Politics, ch. 15