TY - JOUR

T1 - Multi-level Governance, Policy Implementation and Participation

T2 - The EU’s Mandated Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental Policy

AU - Newig, Jens

AU - Koontz, Tomas M.

PY - 2014/2/7

Y1 - 2014/2/7

N2 - Innovations in European Union (EU) policy making have produced a distinctive, novel mode of policy that combines components of participatory and multi-level governance for policy implementation. In this manuscript we provide a conceptualization of what we term the EU's 'mandated participatory planning' (MPP) approach. This approach is increasingly used to implement EU directives, mandating the explicit formulation of certain plans or programmes on mostly subnational or cross-national levels. Drawing on three empirical examples from (mostly) environmental policy, we argue that analysing MPP as such is useful to help identify challenges and possibilities for EU policy making. Our framework provides a means to organize inquiry and compare disparate policies, and to more broadly understand the integration of policy, planning and implementation. This perspective, in turn, sheds fresh light on familiar concepts at the intersections of multi-level governance, policy implementation and participatory governance, namely multilayer implementation, participatory implementation and polycentric governance.

AB - Innovations in European Union (EU) policy making have produced a distinctive, novel mode of policy that combines components of participatory and multi-level governance for policy implementation. In this manuscript we provide a conceptualization of what we term the EU's 'mandated participatory planning' (MPP) approach. This approach is increasingly used to implement EU directives, mandating the explicit formulation of certain plans or programmes on mostly subnational or cross-national levels. Drawing on three empirical examples from (mostly) environmental policy, we argue that analysing MPP as such is useful to help identify challenges and possibilities for EU policy making. Our framework provides a means to organize inquiry and compare disparate policies, and to more broadly understand the integration of policy, planning and implementation. This perspective, in turn, sheds fresh light on familiar concepts at the intersections of multi-level governance, policy implementation and participatory governance, namely multilayer implementation, participatory implementation and polycentric governance.

KW - Politics

KW - multi-level governance

KW - Partizipation

KW - Umweltpolitik

KW - multi-level governance

KW - participation

KW - environmental policy

KW - EU Air Quality Directives

KW - EU Floods Directive

KW - EU Water Framework Directive

KW - federalism

KW - nested policy cycle

KW - policy delivery

KW - EU Air Quality Directives

KW - EU Floods Directive

KW - EU Water Framework Directive

KW - federalism

KW - nested policy cycle

KW - policy delivery

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893684860&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13501763.2013.834070

DO - 10.1080/13501763.2013.834070

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 21

SP - 248

EP - 267

JO - Journal of European Public Policy

JF - Journal of European Public Policy

SN - 1350-1763

IS - 2

ER -