@article{2017:take:the_hansea,
title = {The Hanseatic League as an early example of cross-border governance?},
year = {2017},
note = {How the Hanseatic League over the centuries succeeded in generating
binding power upon its members and performed steering services? To
answer this question, we need to systematically assign the
theory-driven assumptions on legitimate forms of crossborder
governance with the various, already observable forms of governance.
Here, the Hanseatic League can serve as a historical example, because
- like modern forms of transboundary governance - the League aimed to
establish problem-related rules but possessed neither formal authority
nor central enforcement power. Therefore, the history and the
organizational structure of the League might provide indicators of how
forms and mechanisms of legitimate cross-border governance have to be
arranged in order to generate acceptance and compliance in the long
run. By pointing to such parallels this paper aims to provide a better
understanding of historic and current forms of cross-border governance
in general and the EU in particular.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {71--96},
author = {Take, Ingo},
volume = {23},
number = {1}
}