This summer GovTrack ran a survey of its users to learn more about the siteâs effectiveness. The survey, run in collaboration with mySociety, revealed something ...
adjective. The definition of intergovernmental is things that happens between two or more governments or nations, or between levels of the same government.1  An example of intergovernmental is the United Nations; an intergovernmental agency. An example of intergovernmental is a meeting with representatives of a state senate and the United States Senate; an intergovernmental meeting.
Intergovernmentalism is a term in political science with two meanings. The first refers to a theory of regional integration originally proposed by Stanley Hoffmann; the second treats states and the national government as the primary factors for integration.ntergovernmentalist approaches claim to be able to explain both periods of radical change in the European Union (because of converging governmental preferences) and periods of inertia (due to diverging national interests).