Webpages tagged with «democracy»

An old man sitting at a meeting table with a lot of men around him
Published Dec. 5, 2018 3:44 PM

European decision-makers point to flexible relationships with the EU as a way to maintain their countries’ independence and autonomy. New research from ARENA suggests that political differentiation might in fact lead to the opposite, which does not bode well for the UK after Brexit.

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

What lessons can be drawn from European integration when it comes to balancing unity and diversity?

ARENA Working Paper 24/2005 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper is on whether the parameters of power politics in Europe are changing and whether the EU can be described as a cosmopolitan polity in the making. In other words: Is it the case that the popular sovereignty principe must yield to fundamental human rights?

ARENA Working Paper 09/2005 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In spite of relentless criticism over many years bureaucracies and bureaucrats are possibly experiencing a renaissance. The aim of this paper is to make sense of this puzzle by exploring bureaucracy as a specific way of organizing public administration in democratic societies. Through what processes and under what conditions is administrative organization likely to come close to the Weberian ideal type?

ARENA Working Paper 14/2007 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

Published Aug. 4, 2010 12:56 PM
Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In this article Trenz argues that the tension between normative standards and legitimating practice should be considered as constitutive for the emergence of a European public sphere. Against recent attempts to define the European public sphere in purely descriptive terms, this implies the need to re-introduce the normativity of the public sphere as part of the dynamics of an evolving communicative space in Europe.

ARENA Working Paper 12/2008 (pdf)

Hans-Jörg Trenz

Published July 23, 2010 9:39 AM
Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In this paper Cathrine Holst looks at the gender justice in the EU. The paper is a critical discussion of the normative assumptions in the EU gender justice index that is to be launched in the near future.

ARENA Working Paper 22/2008 (pdf)

Cathrine Holst

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In this paper, Erik O. Eriksen claims that the EEA Agreement to a large extent has made Norway a de facto EU member. Norway's democratic deficit will increase as the cooperation within the EU expands and the institutions are reformed.

ARENA Working Paper 21/2008 (pdf)

Erik. O. Eriksen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In this essay Fossum is discussing the politically divising issue in Norwegian politics- membership in the European Union. Through the EEA agreement Norway has become tightly incorporated in the EU, and this incorporation poses challenges to the Norwegian democracy. Fossum is treating this issue thorugh Holmes' notion of 'gag rules'.

ARENA Working Paper 04/2008 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

Published Feb. 17, 2011 3:56 PM

Geert Mak has followed in John Steinbeck's path on his trip to the USA. Euope has much to learn from the American project whether we like it or not.

Published Jan. 30, 2012 2:16 PM

Some claim that the Norwegian ‘No’-campaigners won in 1994, but have lost ever since. Every government since 1994 has brought Norway closer to the EU. Where does this leave democracy?

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper evaluates the mediatizing potential of the internet on the politics of European integration and the process of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) through an analysis of online debates during the 2009 EU elections.

ARENA Working Paper 06/2010 (pdf)

Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In this paper, the author adopts a pragmatist approach to the European transformation from an order of largely independent nation-states to an integrated order with some capacity to rule in the name of all.

ARENA Working Paper 07/2010 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen

Published Feb. 8, 2011 10:20 AM

The paper critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling, and argues that the ruling and the justification speak to several – distinctly different – models of democracy.

ARENA Working Paper 09/2010 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum

Published July 26, 2010 2:35 PM
Published June 27, 2011 11:35 AM

Can there be democracy beyond the nation state, and in that case: which democracy for Europe?

Published July 26, 2010 2:20 PM
Published Feb. 8, 2011 11:50 AM

In this paper, Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou analyse Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy contestation.

ARENA Working Paper 14/2010 (pdf)

Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou

Published Feb. 1, 2011 3:30 PM

This paper contributes to the philosophical exchanges of Nussbaum’s version of the capability approach. Nussbaum herself presents her contribution as an alternative to John Rawls’ theory of justice, and following her lead, this paper compares Nussbaum and Rawls.

ARENA Working Paper 16/2010 (pdf)

Cathrine Holst

Published Mar. 15, 2011 11:46 AM

This paper scrutinises MacCormick’s liberal nationalism. It is argued that a cosmopolitan constitutional patriotism might be a more suitable mode of allegiance for the post-sovereign constellation.

ARENA Working Paper 3/2011 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

Published Nov. 5, 2010 3:01 PM
Published Nov. 1, 2011 3:35 PM

In this paper, the authors confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual setting. To illustrate their argument, they rely on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections.

ARENA Working Paper 9/2011 (pdf)

Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz