ABSTRACT
Governance by government has for a long time been possible since one political organization—the territorial state—could provide a complex set of different governance functions. However, the challenges of and responses to, globalization appear to be transforming this Westphalian or national constellation. The new constellation seems to be characterized more by an unbundling of the governance functions of the territorial state and their reassignment to different governance levels. It is therefore based on the interplay between different levels, which in turn is constitutive for the reproduction of each level. In this sense, the interplay of these different levels resembles the logic of a multi-level governance system.
