Polycentricity in the European Union

ISBN: 9781108534673 出版年：2019 页码：344 Josephine Van Zeben Cambridge University Press

Supranational governance is being challenged by politicians and citizens around the eu as over-centralized and undemocratic. This book is premised on the idea that polycentric governance, developed by vincent and elinor ostrom, is a fruitful place to start for addressing this challenge. Assessing the presence of, and potential for, polycentric governance within the eu means approaching established principles and practices from a new perspective. While the debate on these issues is rich, longstanding and interdisciplinary, it has proven difficult to sidestep the 'renationalisation/federalisation' dichotomy. The aim of this volume is not to reject the eu's institutional structure but provide a different benchmark for the assessment of its functioning. Polycentric theory highlights the importance of multilevel horizontal relationships within the eu - between states, but also between many sub-state actors, all the way down to individuals.