Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This Research Agenda provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the field of multilevel governance. Illustrating theoretical and normative approaches and identifying prevailing gaps in research, it offers a cutting-edge agenda for future investigations. Leading experts from a range of disciplines explore key questions of multilevel governance pertaining to institutions and institutional dynamics, power relationships and the division of power, as well as policymaking and policy change. Chapters engage with a broad range of policy areas, including digitization, security, climate change and redistributive policies, addressing key multilevel governance issues and dilemmas in coordination, intergovernmental relations, democracy and the transformation of political authority. In an era demarcated by major transformative challenges, this Research Agenda represents an essential reading for students, academics and policy practitioners interested in public policy, comparative politics and intergovernmental or international relations. Offering a state-of-the-art agenda for future research, this book is crucial reading for researchers and graduate students in political science, public administration and federal studies. Its practical insights into contemporary policymaking will also benefit practitioners interested in multilevel governance policy.

This book explores how the "wild beast" of finance may be best understood and controlled. Using the framework of exchange and regulation, European capital markets are analyzed, and it is shown that a common European area of financial exchange has developed. Relative to financial regulation, it is evident that the EU has become the most dominant rule-setter and the regulation established can be interpreted as being of a statutory kind. As it presents the shortcomings of this process, this volume proposes the establishment of a more transparent mega-regulator to control all financial market segments and financial agents.
Markus Lederer is a researcher at the University of Munich.