Linking national and international administrations - the impact of multilevel coordination

正如第一个项目阶段的提案中提到的，第二阶段的研究重点是多层次行政管理中不同协调模式的影响，即决策的实质、范围和有效性。我们对多层次行政模式的实证研究表明，无论正式权力和可用的协调模式如何，行政部门都倾向于通过合作和说服来协调其政策。因此，国家和国际行政部门之间的沟通结构是解释政策成果的必要条件。这些结构可以是不对称的和选择性的，从而表达了真正的权力和影响力模式。将针对在各自背景下代表重要协调模式的选定案例确定这些模式及其影响。权力和影响力将通过对调查问卷获得的数据进行网络分析来确定，而我们打算通过对IO管理部门的专家进行访谈和对公开文件进行定性内容分析来了解行政协调的后果。我们将通过定性比较分析(QCA)对我们的研究结果进行系统评估。在研究组框架的指导下，该项目将进一步阐述多级行政的行政治理概念，主要目的是将NODALITY作为了解国家行政和国际行政之间协调的一个基本概念。

As mentioned in the proposal for the first project phase, research in the second phase focuses on the effects of different coordination patterns in multilevel administration, defined as substance, scope and effectiveness of policy making. Our empirical research on patterns of multilevel administration has revealed that regardless of formal powers and available modes of coordination, administrations tend to coordinate their policies by cooperation and persuasion. Therefore, structures of communication between national and international administrations constitute an essential condition to explain policy outcomes. These structures can be asymmetric and selective, thus expressing real patterns of power and influence. These patterns and their effects will be identified for selected cases that represent important coordination patterns in their respective contexts. Power and influence will be determined by network analysis of data gained by questionnaires, while we intend to capture the consequences of administrative coordination by interviews addressed to experts in administrations of IO and by a qualitative content analysis of publicly available documents. We will systematically evaluate our findings through Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Guided by the framework of the research group, the project will further elaborate the concept of administrative governance for multilevel administration and aims primarily at nodality as a fundamental concept to understand coordination between national and international administration.