Nettsider med emneord «European Commission»
Eva Krick and Åse Gornitzka have published an article in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, tracing the claim of a “scientisation” of EU governance.
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.
This paper aims at understanding role behaviour and conflict dimensions in the College of European Commissioners.
ARENA Working Paper 17/2005 (pdf)
Morten Egeberg
How does the EU's organisational structure affect its impact on domestic governments? This paper investigates Council and Commission influence on national governance. By empirical data from Norway and Sweden it is shown that while the Council consolidates administrative hierarchies, the Commission disrupts such traditional structures by by-passing them.
ARENA Working Paper 22/2005 (pdf)
Torbjörn Larsson and Jarle Trondal
Jarle Trondal and Marianne Riddervold (Høgskolen i Innlandet/NUPI) have published a new article in Comparative European Politics. The paper examines how the European Commission exceeds limited legal Treaty provisions in foreign and security policy (CFSP).
The authors argue in this article that Europe has in fact had a kind of executive order for centuries but that we only now see that the contours of this order are qualitatively different from the intergovernmental order inherited from the past.
ARENA Working Paper 09/2008 (pdf)
Deirdre Curtin and Morten Egeberg
In this paper Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup examine patterns of participation in the large and organized expert group system under the European Commission.
ARENA Working Paper 14/2008 (pdf)
Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup
This paper analyses the EU cross-border provision of healthcare services. It shows the interplay between the Commission and the Court concerning welfare regulation in the EU. The paper concludes that law and evidence-based policy-making serve as powerful resources for the Commission in managing conflict.
ARENA Working Paper 05/2009 (pdf)
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
In this paper Egeberg and Heskestad 'unpack' the demographic composition in terms of nationality of the three latest commissions’ cabinets. Based on studies of comparable phenomena, they find reason to believe that decomposition of a particular demographical cluster within an organisational unit reduces the impact of such demographical factors on officials’ decision behaviour.
ARENA Working Paper 25/2008 (pdf)
Morten Egeberg and Andreas Heskestad
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
Guri Rosén and Silje H. Tørnblad seek to answer questions, to what extent, and how, does expertise from the Commission influence the European Parliament’s positions in the article in the European Politics and Society.
The article illustrates that despite recent Commission reforms, some core behavioural logics among Commission officials are not profoundly transformed.
ARENA Working Paper 14/2011 (pdf)
Jarle Trondal
Drawing on fresh empirical data, this paper accounts for the inter-penetration between the European Commission and national regulatory agencies. Focusing on the environmental domain, a comparative Nordic analysis shows that integration differs, in part due to organizational features and administrative culture.
ARENA Working Paper 30/2005 (pdf)
Maria Martens
This paper discusses the ‘agencification’ and fragmentation of national governments, and questions whether a ‘methodological nationalism’ has hindered us from seeing the emerging executive centre at the level above, i.e. the European Commission, and the re-coupling of nationally decoupled agencies into a multilevel Union administration.
ARENA Working Paper 05/2007 (pdf)
Morten Egeberg
The European Commission represents a notable organisational innovation in the way that executive politicians at the top, i.e. the commissioners, have their primary affiliation to the international level. Thus, the Commission constitutes a laboratory for experiments in supranational institutionbuilding. In this paper these facts will be given a closer look.
ARENA Working Paper 4/2012 (pdf)
Morten Egeberg
This paper shows how the framing of complex policy issues on the EU legislative agenda influences the processing of political interests and ideas and their expression in policy choices.
ARENA Working Paper 5/2012 (pdf)
Falk Daviter
This paper takes a look as so far undocumented relationships between EU agencies and the Commission. Drawing on new data sources the paper shows how EU agencies might have become parts of Commission departments' portfolios, indicating centralization of EU executive power.
ARENA Working Paper 6/2014 (pdf)
Morten Egeberg, Jarle Trondal and Nina M. Vestlund
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities organizes the Participatory Forum'Building Together a Society for All – A Circus against Exclusion' which will take place in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2010. During the session on 'Social Inclusion of migrant youth: Breaking the inter-generational transmission of poverty and social exclusion' Scientific Coordinator Katrine Fangen will present results from the EUMARGINS research project. Participation in the forum is open for the public.
The aim of the EUMARGINS policy report is to inform the current EU policy debate and policy framework in the areas of social inclusion and exclusion of young people with immigrant background. The policy report presents a summary of current EU policy frames, discusses how EUMARGINS research results can inform policy and concludes with concrete policy recommendations.
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
The European Commission, in some ways more similar to a national government than to international institutions, is the object of scrutiny in this paper. On the basis of contrasting theoretical perspectives, the importance of nationality to Commission proceedings is considered; the paper finds the organizational perspective to offer particularly valuable insights in this area.
ARENA Working Paper 30/2002 (html)
Morten Egeberg