Table of Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Subsidiarity and EU Multilevel Governance: actors, networks and agendas 1
1 Subsidiarity and Multilevel Governance: an overview 23
2 Context matters. The participation of local and regional authorities in EU decision-making 37
3 The Committee of the Regions, 20 years on 69
4 The praxis of Multilevel Governance in the European Union. Two paradigmatic case studies and one conflict 92
5 Europe 2020, "Better Regulation" and Multilevel Governance 116
6 Multilevel Governance in EU Cohesion Policy 144
7 The new EU Urban Agenda: policy entrepreneurialism for multilevel EU metagovernance 168
8 The role of national and subnational parliaments 195
9 Coda: Multilevel Governance and subsidiarity among courts. The limits of constitutional dialogue 212
10 What might still be: National and EU proposals on subsidiarity and Multilevel Governance in the age of "Brexit" 220
11 Conclusion 231
Index 235