ABSTRACT
Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................186 Multilevel Governance as a Historically Situated Construct ...............................187 Toward a Conceptual Clarification of Multilevel Governance? ...........................189 Old Wine in a New Bottle: Federalism with a Discursive Turn? .........................190 Multilevel Governance as Analytical Tool: Reification of the DecisionMaking Process? ................................................................................................ 191
Novelty .........................................................................................................192 Originality ....................................................................................................193
Multilevel Governance as a Normative Concept: Perspectives on Democracy, Legitimacy, and Accountability ..............................196 Multilevel Governance, Legitimacy, and Accountability ....................................197
