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Analysis of Multi-Level Governance and the Policy Process in the Uk.
Critically analyse how a multi-level governance perspective can help us

understand the policy process in the UK.

This essay will attempt to show that multi-layered global governance, supra-national

level governance, national governance, sub-national governance is already a reality for the

citizens of the United Kingdom .There is no longer only one or two levels of government as in

the past – Central Government and local government . 'Government ' is the traditional

understanding of how the UK is governed from Westminster through formal institutions and

elected government. While the nation-state is likely to remain the foremost unit of

government, Devolution and Europeanisation have also emerged and this necessitates an

analyses of government at international, national, sub-national, and local levels.

Rhodes(1997) developed the differentiated polity model as an illustration of the changed

nature of governance in the UK today. Rhodes speaks of the 'hollowing out of the state '

whereby there are many new layers or tiers of governance which affect the policy process

here in the UK and which have diminished the ability of the state to steer or coordinate policy.

Richards and Smith (2002, p15) describe 'governance ' as a label which explains the

changes which have occurred in the policy process in recent years believing that the term

raises awareness of the rise in the diversity of spheres and participants involved in the policy

process. Authoritative decision making is now dispersed across many territorial levels both

upwards and downwards.(Hooghe and Marks, 2001,p11) In today 's world there are many

'actors ' involved in the process of decision making and policy making. Pierre and

Peter (2000,p1) argue that despite the term governance being difficult to define, the

popularity of the concept of governance lies in its ability to encapsulate the wide variety of

institutions and relationships



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