PART 1: POLICY FORMULATION PROCESSES IN IGR SETTINGS: ANALYTICAL MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES 1. Introductory Chapter: Policy Formulation Processes in IGR Settings: Analytical Models and Perspectives - Martin Laffin, Carol Weissert 2. Pathways of Policy Making: The Political Dynamics of Intergovernmental Lawmaking and Reform in the United States - Tim Conlan, Paul Posner 3. Who Will Govern US Megapolitans, and How? An Inter-Governmental Analysis - John Stuart Hall 4. Bureaucratie Sans Frontieres: Legitimacy, Authority, Accountability in Geo-governance Systems - H. George Frederickson, Jack W. Meek 5. The Institutional Analysis of Central-Local Relations Applied to the Case of the Netherlands and Germany - Trui Steen, Theo Toonen 6. Fiscal Decentralization: A Brief on Theory and Evidence - Pedro Camoes PART 2: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ACROSS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT: MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES OF ANALYSIS 7. Introductory Chapter: Policy Implementation Across Levels of Government: Models and Perspectives of Analysis - Marc Holzer, Ellen Wayenberg 8. Dispersed Federalism: Regional Governance for Disaster Policy - Patrick S. Roberts 9. Strategies to Join Up Resources Across Levels and Sectors of Government: A Twelve Country Comparison - Lars Niklasson 10. Revisiting Pressman and Wildavsky: Implementation and the Thickness of Hierarchy - Peter L. Hupe 11. Institutional Decentralization Policies as Multi-Level Governance Strategies: Evaluating the Impacts of Decentralization in Western Europe - Falk Ebinger, Stephan Grohs, Renate Reiter, Sabine Kuhlmann 12. The State of the Practice of Performance Measurement in Intergovernmental Arrangements in the United States - Marc Holzer, Etienne Charbonneau, Alex Henderson PART 3: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN IGR-MLG SETTINGS 13. Introductory Chapter: Performance Measurement and Accountability in IGR-MLG Settings - Marc Holzer, Ellen Wayenberg 14. Distributing Benefits and Burdens: Assessing Performance of the US Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System - Jeremy Hall 15. Managing Performance Across Levels of Government: Lessons Learned or Reproducing Disconnects? - Geert Bouckaert, John Halligan 16. Performance Assessment at the 'Edge of Influence': A Case Study in Central Government Holding Local Authorities to Account for a 'Thriving Third Sector' in the UK - Tony Bovaird, Lys Coleman, Dawn Hands, Les Hems, Douglas Johnson 17. Fiscal Decentralization and Corruption in the European Union: The Italian Case of Community Frauds - Maria Laura Seguiti PART 4: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND WELFARE 18. Introductory Chapter: Intergovernmental Relations and Welfare - Giovanni Fattore, Norma Riccucci 19. Conditioning Subnational Responses to External Influences: The Role of Internal Moderators in Public Policy Adoption in the American States - Edward Alan Miller 20. From Interpersonal to Interregional Redistribution: The Case of Social Policies in Italy - Caterina Ferrario, Alberto Zanardi 21. Do Italian regions effectively use DRG funding to steer provider behaviour? - Elena Cantù, Clara Carbone, Eugenio Anessi-Pessina