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Working papers 2010

ARENA working papers are pre-prints of research articles and chapters analysing and documenting new European orders of governance

Martha Nussbaum's Outcome-oriented Theory of Justice. Philosophical comments

WP 16/2010
Cathrine Holst

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.

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The Theory of Constitutional Synthesis

WP 15/2010
John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez

In this paper, John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez put forward the main elements of the theory of constitutional synthesis as a constitutional theory of European integration.

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Contesting EU Legitimacy

WP 14/2010
Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou

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

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Deliberative Polling. A cure to the democratic deficit of the EU?

WP 13/2010
Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz

In this paper, Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting, relying on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from EuroPolis.

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EU-level Agencies: New executive centre formation or vehicles for national control?

WP 12/2010
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal

In this paper Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal argue that EU agencies which might be able to act relatively independently of national governments and the Council, would contribute to executive centre formation at the European level, and thus to further transformation of the current political-administrative order.

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Bureaucratic Structure and Administrative Behaviour. Lessons from international bureaucracies

WP 11/2010
Jarle Trondal

In this study Jarle Trondal compares two enduring behavioural patterns within bureaucratic organisations: a logic of hierarchy and a logic of portfolio.

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EU-administrasjonen. Senterdannelse og flernivåforvaltning

WP 10/2010
Morten Egeberg

I dette paperet argumenterer Morten Egeberg for at nasjonale administrasjoner i løpet av de siste ti årene også har blir deler av en felles EU-administrasjon sammen med Europakommisjonen og EU-byråene.

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Bringing European Democracy Back In. Or how to read the German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Treaty ruling

WP 09/2010
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum

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.

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Images of Europe. How Commission officials view their institution's role in the EU

WP 08/2010
Liesbet Hooghe

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).

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European Transformation. A pragmatist approach

WP 07/2010
Erik Oddvar Eriksen

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. The pragmatist approach depicts cooperation as a response to problematic situations, and institution formation as a response to the indirect consequences of such, which increasingly catches on and has polity consequences.

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2009 European Parliamentary Elections on the Web. A mediatization perspective

WP 06/2010
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz

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.

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Enlightened Decision Making. The Role of Scientists in EU Governance

WP 05/2010
Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup

In this paper the authors examine empirically the degree of involvement of scientists in EU decision making. In addition they examine a set of conditions that affects the likelihood for scientists to be involved in EU decision making.

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Europeanization of Sea-Level Bureaucrats. A Case of Ship Inspectors’ Training

WP 04/2010
Christer Gulbrandsen

In this paper the author asks how the EU is utilizing national bureaucracies and finds evidence of Europeanization of maritime inspections, adding to the body of evidence suggesting a new international, multilevel administrative order with stronger traits of direct implementation is emerging.

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Agencification and Location. Does Agency Site Matter?

WP 03/2010
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal

In this paper, based on a large-N elite survey among Norwegian agency officials, the authors show that agency autonomy, agency influence and inter-institutional coordination seem to be relatively unaffected by agency site.

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Contesting the EU Budget and Euroscepticism: A Spiral of Dissent?

WP 02/2010
Pieter de Wilde

This study tests hypotheses about patterns and trends in politicization of the EU budget in three budgets, three countries and two forums using claims-making analysis and controlled multivariate comparisons. It finds predominant international polarization with no clear trend over time and no clear difference between countries. It therefore seems likely that politicization of the EU budget reinforces the constraining dissensus, rather than loosening it.

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Two Worlds of Change. On the Internationalisation of Universities

WP 01/2010
Jarle Trondal

This article poses the following question: How are patterns of internationalisation of research among academic staff at universities balancing two worlds of change, that is, governance by the university leadership as well as initiatives by the faculty members? The article argues and empirically substantiates that internationalisation of academic staff tend to be a balancing-act between these two worlds of change.

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