Multi-level Governance, Policy Implementation and Participation: The EU’s Mandated Participatory Planning Approach to Implementing Environmental Policy

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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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of European Public Policy
Volume21
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)248-267
Number of pages20
ISSN1350-1763
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 07.02.2014

    Research areas

  • Politics - multi-level governance, participation, environmental policy, EU Air Quality Directives, EU Floods Directive, EU Water Framework Directive, federalism, nested policy cycle, policy delivery
  • EU Air Quality Directives, EU Floods Directive, EU Water Framework Directive, federalism, nested policy cycle, policy delivery

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