Johan P. Olsen has published a new article in the Norwegian Journal of Political Science on the changing role of government bureaucracy in a challenging new era for European democracy.
In this report, Lea Augenstein investigates the concept of global justice as mutual recognition from a postcolonial perspective, and argues that recognising others is never a neutral or unbiased process and is therefore insufficient in bringing about the justice it promises.
John Erik Fossum has contributed with a chapter on extending the coupling concept in the new volume Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance.
Asimina Michailidou has contributed with a chapter about Euroscepticism and anti-Germanism in Greece in the new volume Dividing United Europe: From Crisis to Fragmentation?
Oxford University Press has published a 6th edition of the book European Union Politics, with a revised version of Morten Egeberg's chapter about the European Commission.
Johan P. Olsen has published the new article 'Europe in search of good governance - Democracy and Democrats, bureaucracy and bureaucrats in the 21st century' in Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift.
Erik O. Eriksen devises a new analytical framework for differentiation in the new book Contesting Political Differentiation: European Division and the Problem of Dominance.
Cathrine Holst has contributed with a chapter in the new volume Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit on how Norway as a non-member is affected by - and affects - EU gender equality policy.
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum have contributed with a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy.
Several ARENA researchers have contributed with book chapters in a new volume about institutional change in the Nordic model, co-edited by Cathrine Holst.
Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander have published a new article in Contemporary Political Theory where they critically scrutinize ten often-cited epistemic objections against the political role of experts, and discuss how expertise can be used to increase the quality of democratic decision-making.
Johan P. Olsen's book on democratic accountability has been translated into Portugeese and published with Brazil's Ecola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP).
Morten Egeberg and Inger Marie Stigen use organizational position, demographic background and political attitudes to explain government bureaucrats’ behaviour in the journal Public Policy and Administration.
Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander introduce three groups of mechanisms that are likely to contribute to remedying the problems of expertise and discuss what they imply for the design of a system of public advisory commissions in this new article in Social Epistemology.
Chris Lord has contributed with a chapter in the the new book Traité d’études Parlementaires (English: The Treaty of Parliamentary Studies).