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Successful coordination should in principle reduce problems that typically arise under conditions of poor coordination, i.e. unclear responsibilities, limited cooperation among stakeholders, lack of knowledge exchange, legal issues (e.g. conflicting legislations) and conflicting values and interests. The self-assessment survey provided some indications that countries with no (or unknown) coordination mechanisms experience relatively more of these barriers than those which reported effective coordination mechanisms. This observation is, however, not fully clear cut as some problems related to coordination have also been reported by countries that describe their coordination mechanisms as effective. There are also conceptual issues involved. As McConnell (2010) notes, success and failure in policies are inherently multidimensional. Success in one dimension such as a process accepted for dealing with a problem does not automatically imply success in actually solving it or in achieving political recognition for it. Therefore respondents may simultaneously consider a coordination mechanism to be effective and yet experience typical problems of coordination.