METAGOVERNANCE :: METACODE

M E T A G O V E R N A N C E

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Definition Function Reflection

DEFINTION

The supreme organizational platform level of a hierarchical order targeting / implementing inclusive and participative governability of various, diverse, and interdependent discourses and interactions of private / public actors in intra-/ intersystemic, interorganizational, intergovernmental, intersocietal networks, arenas, alliances
the governance of governance, not a super-governance, the "governing of governing", the coordination mechanism, process, manner, method and/or system of metagoverning processes; the systemic approach for the development, implementation, and management of Metapolicy Regimes, guided by the constitutional determination of MetaPolity
a syndicating interorganizational networks-system between the state, market, civil society, and their interrelated institutions and organizations using hierarchical mechanisms or instruments with normative dimension correlating values, norms, and principles to underpin governance systems and governing approaches
an innovative system of democratic legitimacy structuring and governing: multilevel (national, international, supranational, transnational), multifaceted (territorial, functional, modern and post-modern), and with a multitude of actors (social, economic, political and cultural; institutional and extra-institutional) ...

FUNCTION

shaping / steering / monitoring the entire governing process, the input and the output of the governing system(s), and "super-vision" as a relative monopoly of organized intelligence ensuring coherence
providing a reflexive, multi-perspective and/or "bird's-eye" view in policy making, institutional, and organizational design regarding the ethical principles / values / norms / codes of conduct
developing strategies, setting and monitoring targets, forming partnerships, structures of vertical and horizontal organizational / institutional governmentality
managing the complexity, plurality, and tangled hierarchies: power-sharing, negotiation, conflict conciliation and communication, on both the inter- and intra-institutional levels
coordinating the reciprocal interdependence among operationally autonomous actors, organizations, and functional systems hierarchical, market, and network governance: the systems' relationship to institutional orders and functional systems including civil society
combining different ideas, methods, mechanisms, strategies, and styles of governance also referring to self-organizing, inter-organizational / institutional networks: the rules of self-regulation and the conditions of self-steering / -regulating policy networks
strategic-relational approaching the social structures, legal norms, hierarchies and legitimacy, standards, benchmarks, performance indicators, quality controls, in-/compatibilities and best practice
selective strategizing in collaborative policy innovation networks to establish concerted policy action by framing, designing, facilitating participation / inclusion
redesigning networks, facilitating constitutional change and the juridical re-regulation of structures, forms, and objectives by organizing the conditions for self-organization and "collibration" ...

REFLECTION

(multilevel) metagovernance is part of a broader post-Westphalian 'meta-constitutional conversation' that is occurring between non-state and state actors to develop and institutionalize a new political order
an alternative form of hierarchical governing that is not based on direct and top-down control but a plurality of indirect ways of influencing and/or coordinating the actions of self-governing, self-organizing actors and self-adjusting practices
an increasing role of governments in all aspects of metagovernance, concurrently the state is no longer the sovereign authority becoming just one participant among others in the pluralistic guidance system and contributes its own distinctive resources to the negotiation process
a post-national form of statehood (f. e. EU: inherited intergovernmentalism): institutional mediation through the state apparatus with its structurally-inscribed strategic selectivity in relation to complex and interrelated problems and the division of hybrid government and governance powers
developing strategies, setting and monitoring targets, and forming partnerships: such 'advanced liberal' forms of governmentality can both mobilize and discipline the energies of civil society

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LITERATURE

Metagovernance [International Encyclopedia of Political Science]

by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino

https://www.ps4sd.eu/images/LouisPublic/Metagovernance-%20definition.pdf

Metagovernance - The Changing Role of Politicians in Processes of Democratic Governance

by Eva Sørensen

https://arp.sagepub.com/content/36/1/98.short

Government, Governance, Metagovernance

by Sherman Tan

https://theoryandconsciousness.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/government-governance-metagovernance/

Multilevel Governance and Multilevel Metagovernance