This paper considers subsidiarity as introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty in the light of democratic deliberation and alternative notions of legitimacy.
ARENA Working Paper 21/1999 (html)
Andreas Føllesdal
This paper considers subsidiarity as introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty in the light of democratic deliberation and alternative notions of legitimacy.
ARENA Working Paper 21/1999 (html)
Andreas Føllesdal
ARENA Working Paper 22/1999 (No full text version available)
Theodor Barth
This essay reviews a recent volume on globalization, marketisation and the challenges these developments pose to democratic political theory and practice at the turn of the century.
ARENA Working Paper 23/1999 (html)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
This paper argues that social constructivism suffers from a lack of micro-level, social agency theory; it attempts to fill this lacuna by analyzing state actor compliance with human rights regimes.
ARENA Working Paper 24/1999 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
This paper discusses competing principles of vote distribution in the EU Council within a framework of normative political theory.
ARENA Working Paper 25/1999 (html)
Knut Midgaard
This paper discusses the marketisation of political citizenship towards client or customer roles. It is argued that while this is a logical effect of an increasingly complex public agenda, it also poses dangers for a conception of politics as endeavours for the collective good.
ARENA Working Paper 26/1999 (html)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and Jarle Weigård
This paper evaluates the processes and interests involved in the development of a more legitimate EU.
ARENA Working Paper 27/1999 (html)
Beate Kohler-Koch
ARENA Working Paper 28/1999 (No full text version available)
Frode Veggeland
ARENA Working Paper 29/1999 (No full text version available)
James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille
ARENA Working Paper 30/1999 (No full text version available)
Simon Butler and Martin Burch
What lines could be drawn between constructivism and institutionalism with regards to subject matter and theoretical assumptions? This paper presents an unusual synthesis; empirics are drawn from national officials in EU committees, with focus on role conceptions and decision-making behaviour.
ARENA Working Paper 31/1999 (html)
Jarle Trondal
This paper investigates the dynamics of national officials involved in EU committee work. Drawing on organizational theory it is argued that the co-ordinative role of foreign ministries depends crucially on the framing of interaction in Brussels.
ARENA Working Paper 32/1999 (html)
Jarle Trondal
This essay discusses the concept of theory as it has been applied in social sciences; it arrives at a classification of four different uses of the word.
ARENA Working Paper 33/1999 (html)
Lars Mjøset
This paper accounts for changes of the late 1990s in the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Discussing whether changes towards supranationalism could be stable and consistent, it is argued that traditional foreign policy perspectives must be supplemented to account for new dynamics.
ARENA Working Paper 34/1999 (html)
Helene Sjursen
This paper attempts to conceptualize the role of the state in a post-national world by applying a relational understanding of sovereignty and authority.
ARENA Working Paper 35/1999 (html)
Michael Zürn
ARENA Working Paper 01/1997 (No full text version available)
Svein S. Andersen and Kjell A. Eliassen
ARENA Working Paper 02/1997 (No full text version available)
Jon Erik Dølvik
ARENA Working Paper 03/1997 (No full text version available)
Janne Haaland Matlary
ARENA Working Paper 04/1997 (No full text version available)
Hans Otto Frøland
ARENA Working Paper 05/1997 (No full text version available)
Andreas Føllesdal
ARENA Working Paper 06/1997 (No full text version available)
Wolfgang Streeck
ARENA Working Paper 07/1997 (No full text version available)
Hans Otto Frøland
ARENA Working Paper 08/1997 (No full text version available)
Inger Johanne Sand
ARENA Working Paper 09/1997 (No full text version available)
Else Grete Broderstad
This paper discusses the potential of EMU in resolving economic stagnation in Europe; more directly, it questions whether tenets of Scandinavian social democracy may have something to offer to Europe in search of a sort of progressive consensus.
ARENA Working Paper 10/1997 (html)
Ton Notermans