Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance

Download or read book Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance written by Benz, Arthur and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilevel governance divides powers, includes many veto players and requires extensive policy coordination among different jurisdictions. Under these conditions, innovative policies or institutional reforms seem difficult to achieve. However, while multilevel systems establish obstructive barriers to change, they also provide spaces for creative and experimental policies, incentives for learning, and ways to circumvent resistance against change. As the book explains, appropriate patterns of multilevel governance linking diverse policy arenas to a loosely coupled structure are conducive to policy innovation.