Webpages tagged with « democracy»

This paper asks how ex ante and ex post control mechanisms structuring the involvement of national parliaments in EU policy-formulation affect the size and scope of conflict of parliamentary debates.

ARENA Working Paper 13/2009 (pdf)

Pieter de Wilde

In this article the author proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation of an emerging European society.

ARENA Working Paper 11/2008 (pdf)

Hans-Jörg Trenz

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.

ARENA Working Paper 05/2010 (pdf)

Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup

In this essay Johan P. Olsen argues for improved theoretical understanding in the field of EU governance in order to overcome four impediments in the literature: tidying up the conceptual morass, amending the inconclusive evidence, ousting the ghost of “the state” as a major frame of reference, and getting beyond the tyranny of dichotomies.

ARENA Working Paper 10/2008 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

This article addresses the critical issue of how constitutional designing of the EU is related to the expression of collective identities.

ARENA Working Paper 07/2009 (pdf)

Hans-Jörg Trenz