Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Paul W. Thurner & Martin Binder
    Formal and real authority of ministerial jurisdictions in semi-open states: the comparative value of administrative inside and outside networking
    in Journal of European Public Policy , Volume 19, Issue 6 2012 ,  2012 ,  817-843
    How successful are ministries in achieving their jurisdictional goals in intergovernmental negotiations? And is it more valuable for them to network domestically as compared with transgovernmental networking? For the first time, we provide a quantitative assessment of the relative impact of inside versus outside networking efforts of ministerial bureaucracies – simultaneously controlling for their formal organizational rights. The evaluative benchmark will be their returns from intergouvernmental negotiations. Our application case is an European Union intergovernmental conference. In order to separate the respective effects of outside against inside networking, we propose to disaggregate the nation-state into its ministerial jurisdictions. For the estimation of the value of networking, we measure ‘negotiation returns’ by comparing the ideal points of 140 governmental subunits with regard to 46 negotiation issues with the final treaty stipulations. Owing to the complex cross-classified order of the data, we use a specific type of multi-level analysis, i.e. the so-called two-way error-components models.
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