Webpages tagged with «institutionalism»
Is the European Research University going to be a historical parenthesis? University dynamics is seen as driven by tensions between three of the key institutions of modern society - science, representative democracy and the market economy - and between different policy-sectors and levels of governance. What kind of university and what kind of academics are we likely to see in future, and what will be the University's role in society?
ARENA Working Paper 08/2007 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
This paper presents three landmark articles on “The new institutionalism” that are part of a research agenda launched more than twenty years ago.“The new institutionalism” offers a perspective on how political life is organized, functions and changes in contemporary democracies. In contrast with an older institutionalism that used formal-legal rules as proxies for political action, the new institutionalism is behavioral.
ARENA Working Paper 13/2007 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
To what extent does the Open Method of Coordination represent a watershed in education policy at the European level?
ARENA Working Paper 16/2006 (pdf)
Åse Gornitzka
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