Bulgaria’s multi-level governance system: A diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Governance System ◽  
System A ◽  
Multi Level

Position of OLAF in a multi-level governance system of the European Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Janusz Ruszkowski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Precise Determination ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Agent Theory ◽  
System A ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The One

The author aims to investigate the position of OLAF in the multi-level governance system (MLG) of the European Union with specific inter-institutional consequences of such location, assuming that OLAF is not a classical supranational institution. In the research subject an important role is played by the European Commission (EC), which established OLAF and gave it specific competences to act. These facts are fundamentally important for further considerations, so they can have a major impact on the precise determination of OLAF’s position in the MLG. If OLAF as an agent and supervisor has control powers over supranational institutions, including its principal, a supranational European Commission, it is unlikely that it would also be a supranational institution. This article demonstrates, that OLAF is not a classic supranational institution because it exhibits strong features of a supra-supranational institution operating in a multi-level EU governance system. A helpful theoretical and methodological research tools we consider the Principal/Agent Theory (PAT) and its combination Principal/Supervisor/Agent Theory (PSAT) on the one hand, and the concept of multi-level governance (MLG) on the other hand.

Fiscal Responsibility and Multi-Level Governance

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Guarini ◽  
Anna Francesca Pattaro
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Fiscal Rules ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Fiscal Responsibility ◽  
Multi Level

Public-policy assumptions regarding sub-national governments' financial behavior are based on economic rationality. Therefore, to achieve fiscal stability at the macro level, central governments use fiscal rules both to constrain the behavior of local policymakers and to resolve deficit/debt biases. Using the Italian fiscal governance system as an illustrative example, this chapter considers both the tensions derived from achieving fiscal responsibility at the national level in a decentralized environment and the difficulties of maintaining adequate performance at the local government level. It is argued that the public management perspective can be helpful not only at the micro level but also at the macro level in developing public policies to promote fiscal stability. It is suggested that public policy should adopt a more holistic approach toward fiscal responsibility in multi-level governance environments. Such an approach requires a deep understanding of the determinants of financial viability of public sector organizations.

scholarly journals Building Negotiated Agreement: The Emergence of Community-Based Tourism in Floreana (Galápagos Islands)

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros ◽  
Eduardo Brondizio
Keyword(s):  
Governance System ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Island Community ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Development And Management

Community Based Tourism (CBT) is a polysemic term referring to local involvement in the planning, development, and management of tourism. While there is no direct correspondence between CBT and positive economic and conservation outcomes, CBT is a frame widely used to reconcile tourism development with social-environmental goals. Building upon the case of the island community of Floreana, within the Galápagos National Park (GNP) in Ecuador (where tourism activities have introduced major environmental problems), this paper analyzes the emergence of CBT as part of multi-level processes of institutional crafting. Efforts to develop a new model of tourism management in Galápagos, strongly shaped by a particular community, offer a quasi-experimental case of rule-crafting aimed at developing a participatory, multi-level governance system. Our approach integrates ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis with the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to identify key elements associated with the process of implementing CBT. We discuss three points of broader relevance: the inter-dependence of regional and local levels, the importance of considering worldviews and the intended outcomes envisioned by different actors, and the importance of coherence in rule-crafting (across levels and types of rules) defining control and regulation of CBT development and of tourism operations.

scholarly journals Elite Collusion and African Governance System: A Critique of Democracy and Development in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abdulhamid Ozohu-Suleiman ◽  
Shehu Mustapha Liberty
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
System A ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
The Masses

Following the commencement of the third wave democratization in Africa, scholarly preoccupation shifted, or at least began to shift away from the over flogged discourse on colonial antecedents and authoritarian rule among others, as explanations for governance failure in the continent. Thus, the prevailing liberal political conditions now offer a new perspective to articulate the development problematic in emergent democracies of Africa. This paper seeks to examine how the negative outcomes generated by this governance system have made development the casualty of the democratization process in Nigeria. It advances the thesis of elite collusion to provide insights into the causes of governance failure in Nigeria. The paper argues that the hegemonic interest of the ruling elite remains the predominant factor that narrowly defines public policy. By means of interpretative approach the paper reviewed secondary data from extant literature and development reports that are Germaine to the subject matter of the study. It established that much of the development deficit is the predictable consequence of the disconnect between the common good and state policy/institutional action. This disconnect is exacerbated by a political environment that is overwhelmed by self-seeking and unpatriotic ruling elite. The paper concludes that; democracy, though, a necessary condition for good governance and sustainable development, requires an ideologically driven party politics to reconstruct the prevalent governance system. A number of recommendations are made among which are; an urgent need to build strong governance institutions that are rule bound (re-bureaucratization) in order to neutralize elite collusion, and a realignment of the democratization process to embrace the variant of social democracy – an option that prioritizes the participation of the masses in the development process.

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