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List of contents
Introduction: Subsidiarity and EU Multilevel Governance: Actors, Networks and Agendas 1. Subsidiarity and Multilevel Governance: An Overview 2. Context Matters: The Participation of Local and Regional Authorities in EU Decision Making 3. The Committee of the Regions, 20 years On 4. The Praxis of Multilevel Governance in the European Union: Two Paradigmatic Case Studies and One Conflict 5. Europe 2020, "Better Regulation" and Multilevel Governance 6. Multilevel Governance in EU Cohesion Policy 7. The New EU Urban Agenda: Policy Entrepreneurialism for Multilevel EU Metagovernance 8. The Role of National and Subnational Parliaments 9. Coda: Multilevel Governance and Subsidiarity among Courts: The limits of Constitutional Dialogue 10. What Might Still Be: National and EU Proposals on Subsidiarity and Multilevel Governance in the Age of "Brexit". Conclusion
About the author
Serafín Pazos-Vidal is the Head of the Brussels Office of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), leading EU policy development and negotiation as well as acting as its main Brussels interface. Over the last 15 years, he has led various EU campaigns notably as chair of the CEMR expert group on Cohesion. He has drafted or contributed to various reports from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Committee of the Regions, European Parliament and European Commission as well as various UK and Scottish parliamentary inquiries.
Summary
This book examines the theory and praxis of the legal concept of subsidiarity and the policy paradigm of multilevel governance, providing an updated overview on how subnational and national authorities engage within the EU institutional framework.
