Affiliation:
1. Department of Social and Historical Sciences Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany
2. ZHAW School of Management and Law Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur Switzerland
Abstract
AbstractThe big policy challenges of our times are complex problems cutting across policy sectors and levels of government. To answer the question how cross‐sectoral policy coordination in multilevel structures can be achieved, we argue in line with policy integration and multilevel governance scholarship that “loosely coupled” institutions create the interdependency necessary to secure complex coordination. This argument is substantiated empirically by investigating coordination of energy transition in the German Bundesrat. Expectations are derived on how loosely coupled institutions promote coordination. They are tested using a mix of empirical data. It can be shown that loosely coupled institutions indeed enable coordination by linking powers across multiple dimensions, creating incentives for cross‐sectoral communication, using personal ties in negotiations to bridge different institutional backgrounds, and sequencing the decision process to allow strategic shifts between coordination dimensions. Those mechanisms may not guarantee the best possible result, but they provide a satisfactory solution at least.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Political Science and International Relations
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