Project Details
Projekt
Linking national and international administrations - the impact of multilevel coordination
Applicant
Professor Dr. Arthur Benz
Subject Area
Political Science
Term
from 2014 to 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 198360606
As mentioned in the proposal for the first project phase, research in the second phase focuses on the effects of different coordination patterns in multilevel administration, defined as substance, scope and effectiveness of policy making. Our empirical research on patterns of multilevel administration has revealed that regardless of formal powers and available modes of coordination, administrations tend to coordinate their policies by cooperation and persuasion. Therefore, structures of communication between national and international administrations constitute an essential condition to explain policy outcomes. These structures can be asymmetric and selective, thus expressing real patterns of power and influence. These patterns and their effects will be identified for selected cases that represent important coordination patterns in their respective contexts. Power and influence will be determined by network analysis of data gained by questionnaires, while we intend to capture the consequences of administrative coordination by interviews addressed to experts in administrations of IO and by a qualitative content analysis of publicly available documents. We will systematically evaluate our findings through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Guided by the framework of the research group, the project will further elaborate the concept of administrative governance for multilevel administration and aims primarily at nodality as a fundamental concept to understand coordination between national and international administration.
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