Webpages tagged with «Institutions»

Published Jan. 3, 2019 2:40 PM

Several ARENA researchers have contributed with book chapters in a new volume about institutional change in the Nordic model, co-edited by Cathrine Holst. 

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Professor Emeritus Johan P. Olsen is one of Norway’s most prominent, most renowned and most cited social scientists. In 2011 he was elected as a member of The American National Academy of Sciences because of his important contribution to scientific research.

Published June 21, 2011 2:44 PM

This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound.

ARENA Working Paper 5/2011 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum

Published Feb. 8, 2011 10:31 AM

This article lays out institutional options and role conceptions adopted by Commission officials,and estimates their relative incidence using a 2008 large-scale survey among Commission officials (N=1901).

ARENA Working Paper 08/2010 (pdf)

Liesbet Hooghe

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Accounting for the role of EU institutions in the integration process,this introductory essay also brings a wider debate about the usefulness of institutional theory.

ARENA Working Paper 27/2002 (html)

Joseph Jupille, James A. Caporaso and Jeffrey T. Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Neatly combining a theoretical argument with empirical studies, this paper attempts to conceptualise persuasion in the context of opinion formation in international institutions.

ARENA Working Paper 14/2002 (html)

Jeffrey T. Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

From an institutional point of view, this paper studies role perceptions and allegiance of national civil servants participating in EU committes.

ARENA Working Paper 03/2002 (html)

Jarle Trondal

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Institutions, omnipresent in the governing of European affairs, have important effects of socialization on states and other actors. This paper gives the introductory chapter to a volume of institutional theory on European institutions.

ARENA Working Paper 11/2001 (html)

Jeffrey T. Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

From a distincly institutionalist perspective, this paper considers the prospects for pre-designed reform of the EU's institutions of governance.

ARENA Working Paper 07/2001 (html)

Johan P. Olsen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Approaching from a middle-range institutional perspective, this paper investigates the putative transformation of loyalties of national civil servants contracted by the EU administration.

ARENA Working Paper 25/2001 (html)

Jarle Trondal

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper discusses the hypothesised decline of bilateral diplomacy in the EU and presents an empirical indicator of such decline, measuring the number of diplomatic staff over time in bilateral embassies.

ARENA Working Paper 10/2007 (pdf)

Øivind Bratberg

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Denne artikkelen ser på utviklingstrekk i høyere utdanningsinstitusjoner, med spesielt blikk på europeisering.

This paper discusses the internal and external dynamics of higher education institutions, with particular focus on Europeanization.

ARENA Working Paper 01/2006 (pdf)

Åse Gornitzka & Johan P. Olsen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Changes in the University’s governance system, financial basis and organization signal that it is facing a transformative period. This paper proposes a perspective for understanding current changes in University governance as institutional collisions, where the University as a distinct institutional sphere is challenged by market and government.

ARENA Working Paper 02/2006 (pdf)

Åse Gornitzka & Johan P. Olsen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

The extent to which political cleavages are cross-cutting national boundaries is seen as an indicator of system transformation in the EU. In this paper cleavage patterns are seen as partly reflecting the EU's institutional architecture.

ARENA Working Paper 19/2004 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg

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