This book offers one of the most comprehensive and well-constructed arguments for the emergence of multi-level governance in the EU ... Scholars of EU politics and integration theorists will find this an exciting and theoretically imaginative book.
Local Government Studies
This volume is held together by a clear and consistently applied analytical framework and is marked by an evenness of quality throughout. ... a book which succeeds both as a rich empirical treatment of a major development in EU policy and as a probe into new theoretical territory.
International Journal, vol.52/2, Spring 1997
This is a significant contribution to a contentious issue in British and European politics.
Aslib Book Guide, vol.62 no.7, 1997