Community, Scale, and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
Abstract
The postfunctionalist premise of this book is that governance is not one thing. It is at least two things: it is a means to realize ends and it is an end in itself. The first conception conceives governance, binding collective decision making in the public sphere, as a functional adaptation to the provision of public goods. The second conceives governance as an expression of human sociality. It stresses that humans are social beings who value self-rule for what it is as well as for what it does. Collective self-rule has intrinsic value for people who consider themselves part of a community. Th ... More
The postfunctionalist premise of this book is that governance is not one thing. It is at least two things: it is a means to realize ends and it is an end in itself. The first conception conceives governance, binding collective decision making in the public sphere, as a functional adaptation to the provision of public goods. The second conceives governance as an expression of human sociality. It stresses that humans are social beings who value self-rule for what it is as well as for what it does. Collective self-rule has intrinsic value for people who consider themselves part of a community. The authors find that scale and community explain basic features of subnational regional governance, including the physical design of jurisdictions, the growth of differentiated governance, and the authority of regions. This study investigates regional authority in eighty-one countries across Europe, Latin America, North America, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 1950.
Keywords:
region,
regionalism,
multilevel governance,
community,
scale,
self-rule,
shared rule,
postfunctionalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198766971 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766971.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Liesbet Hooghe, author
W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Chair in Multilevel Governance , VU University Amsterdam
Gary Marks, author
Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU University Amsterdam
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