Previous working papers

ARENA working papers from 2011 to 2024

2024

Rettssikker begrunnelse i praksis? En analyse av NAVs begrunnelsespraksis

ARENA Working Paper 2/2024 (pdf)


Reconsidering sovereignty in security and defence cooperation: The case of European ‘great powers’

ARENA Working Paper 1/2024 (pdf)

Tine Elisabeth Johnsen Brøgger

2023

Systemtillit eller personlig tillit

ARENA Working Paper 4/2023 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


Hvordan fatte riktige beslutninger? Tre modeller av forvaltningsatferd

ARENA Working Paper 3/2023 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


Identifisering og tolkning av prinsipper: Rammeverk for analyse av begrunnelser i Nav

ARENA Working Paper 2/2023 (pdf)

Andreas Eriksen


International Organizations, the European Union and Peace: Bringing Organization Structure In

ARENA Working Paper 1/23 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg

2022

Regulatory Agencies and Networks in Europe

ARENA Working Paper 3/2022 (pdf)

Tobias Bach


A Cross-Country Analysis of News Reports on Differentiation in the European Union

ARENA Working Paper 2/2022 (pdf)

Resul Umit, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou


The political future of the European Economic Area

ARENA Working Paper 1/2022 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

2021

News, misinformation and support for the EU

ARENA Working Paper 12/2021 (pdf)

Martin Moland and Asimina Michailidou


Differentiation and segmentation

ARENA Working Paper 11/2021 (pdf)

Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum


The European Parliament and Brexit

ARENA Working Paper 10/2021 (pdf)

Christopher Lord


Supranationalization of Government and Governance

ARENA Working Paper 9/2021 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg


Bureaucratic Politics

ARENA Working Paper 8/2021 (pdf)

Tobias Bach


Journalism, Truth and the Restoration of Trust in Democracy: The EU's Anti-fake News Strategy from a Public Sphere Perspective

ARENA Working Paper 7/2021 (pdf)

Asimina Michailidou, Elisabeth Eike and Hans-Jörg Trenz


Taking the ‘Citizen’ out of ‘Citizen Participation’? The Discursive, Legal, and Practical Challenges of Reconstructing Citizen-Driven EU Contestation in the Digital Media Sphere

ARENA Working Paper 6/2021 (pdf)

Helena Seibicke and Asimina Michailidou


New Roles for National Parliaments after Lisbon: The Communication Function of National Parliaments in EU Affairs

ARENA Working Paper 5/2021 (pdf)

Astrid Wolter


Realising Global Political Justice

ARENA Working Paper 4/2021 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


A Break from the Past or Business as Usual? EU-ACP Relations at a Crossroad

ARENA Working Paper 3/2021 (pdf)

Johanne Døhlie Saltnes


To Sanction or Not to Sanction? Normative Dilemmas in the Promotion of LGBTI Human Rights

ARENA Working Paper 2/2021 (pdf)

Johanne Døhlie Saltnes


Notes on the ‘Politics’ of EU Politicisation

ARENA Working Paper 1/2021 (pdf)

Niilo Kauppi and Hans-Jörg Trenz

2020

Depoliticisation and Its Legitimacy Problems

ARENA Working Paper 3/2020 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


How are Policy Knowledge and Expertise Generated in Civil Society Organisations? Mapping Opportunities for Learning in the European Women’s Lobby

ARENA Working Paper 2/2020 (pdf)

Helena Seibicke


EU Differentiation, Dominance and the Control Function of Journalism

ARENA Working Paper 1/2020 (pdf)

Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz

2019

Global Justice and Aid Effectiveness: Reforms of the European Union’s Development Policy

ARENA Working Paper 5/2019 (pdf)

Johanne Døhlie Saltnes


Agency Accountability: Management of expectations or answerability to mandate?

ARENA Working Paper 04/2019 (pdf)

Andreas Eriksen


Global Gender Justice Distributive Justice or Participatory Parity?

ARENA Working Paper 03/19 (pdf)

Cathrine Holst


Founding Democracy in the European Union: Defending Habermas against Habermas

ARENA Working Paper 2/19 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


Perspectives on International Public Administration Research: A Rejoinder to Johan Christensen and Kutsal Yesilkagit

ARENA Working Paper 1/19 (pdf)

Michael W. Bauer, Louisa Bayerlein, Jörn Ege, Christoph Knill and Jarle Trondal

2018

Promoting Global Justice When Backlash Strikes: EU and UN Beijing +20

ARENA Working Paper 7/2018 (pdf)

Cathrine Holst


Post-Lisbon Policy-Making in the European Commission

ARENA Working Paper 6/2018 (pdf)

Kristina Ophey


European Solidarity in Times of Crisis

ARENA Working Paper 5/2018 (pdf)

Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz


The Whole and the Parts

ARENA Working Paper 4/2018 (pdf)

Dimitris N. Chryssochoou


Rethinking First- and Second-Order Elections

ARENA Working Paper 3/2018 (pdf)

Charlotte Galpin and Hans-Jörg Trenz


How Climate Scientists View the Expert Role

ARENA Working Paper 2/2018 (pdf)

Torbjørn Gundersen


Legitimate Agency Reasoning

ARENA Working Paper 1/2018 (pdf)

Andreas Eriksen

2017

Europe's Foreign Policy and the Nature of Secrecy

ARENA Working Paper 11/17 (pdf)

Mai'a K. Davis Cross


EU Institutions and the Drive for Peace: The Power of Ideas

ARENA Working Paper 10/17 (pdf)

Mai'a K. Davis Cross


Equal Sovereignty: On the Conditions of Global Political Justice

ARENA Working Paper 9/17 (pdf)

Kjartan Koch Mikalsen


Democratic Accountability and the Changing European Political Order

ARENA Working Paper 8/2017 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen


Constitutional Pluralism: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?

ARENA Working Paper 7/2017 (pdf)

Michael A. Wilkinson


Global Justice and Foreign Policy

ARENA Working Paper 6/2017 (pdf)

Helene Sjursen


Not so Humanitarian After All? Assessing EU Naval Mission Sophia

ARENA Working Paper 5/2017 (pdf)

Marianne Riddervold and Ruxandra-Laura Bosilca


Structural Injustice and Solidarity. The Case of the Eurozone Crisis

ARENA Working Paper 4/2017 (pdf)

Erik O. Eriksen


Fragmentation, Segmentation and Centre Formation

ARENA Working Paper 3/2017 (pdf)

Christopher Lord


The Guardianship of European Constitutionality

ARENA Working Paper 2/2017 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez


Three Conceptions of Global Political Justice

ARENA Working Paper 1/2017 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen

2016

The Structural Crisis of European Law As a Means of Social Integration

ARENA Working Paper 5/2016 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez


Can Brexit Be Turned Into a Democratic Shock? Five Points

ARENA Working Paper 4/2016 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez


Agencification of the European Union administration: Connecting the dots

ARENA Working Paper 3/2016 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal


Dissecting International Public Administration

ARENA Working Paper 2/2016 (pdf)

Jarle Trondal


Democracy and Legitimacy in the EU: Challenges and Options

ARENA Working Paper 1/2016 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

2015

The Structure of the EU System of Government

ARENA Working Paper 5/2015 (pdf)

Diego Praino


Neumark Vindicated: The Europeanisation of National Tax Systems and the Future of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat

ARENA Working Paper 4/2015 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez


Consensual Decision-Making Without Voting: The Constitutive Mechanism, (Informal) Institutionalisation and Democratic Quality of the Collective Decision Rule of ‘Tacit Consent’

ARENA Working Paper 3/2015 (pdf)

Eva Krick


A Multi-level Approach to Differentiated Integration: Distributive Policy, National Heterogeneity and Actors in the European Research Area

ARENA Working Paper 2/2015 (pdf)

Tatiana Fumasoli, Åse Gornitzka and Benjamin Leruth


The Nordic Parliaments’ Approaches to the EU: Strategic Coordinator, Comprehensive Scrutinizer, Reluctant Cooperator and Outside-Insider

ARENA Working Paper 1/2015 (pdf)

Ian Cooper

2014

Democracy in Europe: Why the Development of the European Union into a Transnational Democracy is Necessary and How it is Possible

ARENA Working Paper 13/2014 (pdf)

Jürgen Habermas


Beyond Delegation: How the European Commission Affects Intergovernmental Policies Through Expertise

ARENA Working Paper 12/2014 (pdf)

Meng-Hsuan Chou and Marianne Riddervold


Beyond Principles vs. Politics: Humanitarian Aid in the European Union

ARENA Working Paper 11/2014 (pdf)

Charlotte Dany


Eurocrisis and the Media: Preserving or Undermining Democracy?

ARENA Working Paper 10/2014 (pdf)

Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz


A Budgetary Advance: The European Parliament's Growing Role in EU Foreign Policy

ARENA Working Paper 9/2014 (pdf)

Guri Rosén


University Autonomy and Organizational Change Dynamics

ARENA Working Paper 8/2014 (pdf)

Tatiana Fumasoli, Åse Gornitzka and Peter Maassen


The Saga of Europeanisation: On the Narrative Construction of a European Society

ARENA Working Paper 7/2014 (pdf)

Hans-Jörg Trenz


Situating EU Agencies in the Political-Administrative Space

ARENA Working Paper 6/2014 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg, Jarle Trondal and Nina M. Vestlund


After the Euro Crisis: A New Paradigm on the Integration of Europe

ARENA Working Paper 5/2014 (pdf)

Sergio Fabbrini


A Geopolitical Balancing Game? EU and NATO in the Fight Against Somali Piracy

ARENA Working Paper 4/2014 (pdf)

Marianne Riddervold


Deliberative Democracy and Non-Majoritarian Decision-Making

ARENA Working Paper 3/2014 (pdf)

Claudia Landwehr


The Normative Implications of the Eurozone Crisis

ARENA Working Paper 2/2014 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


Secrecy versus Accountability: Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Security and Defence Policy

ARENA Working Paper 1/2014 (pdf)

Guri Rosén

2013

The Autonomy of Bureaucratic Organisations: An Organisation Theory Argument

ARENA Working Paper 8/2013 (pdf)

Jarle Trondal and Frode Veggeland


A Mere Irrelevance? Assessing the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy

ARENA Working Paper 7/2013 (pdf)

Helene Sjursen


Reason-Based Decision-Making: On Deliberation and the Problem of Indeterminacy

ARENA Working Paper 6/2013 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen


The Micro-Macro Link in Deliberative Polling: Deliberative Experiments and Democratic Legitimacy

ARENA Working Paper 5/2013 (pdf)

Espen D.H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz


Using International Law in the Euro Crisis: Causes and Consequences

ARENA Working Paper 4/2013 (pdf)

Bruno De Witte


EU Crises and the International Media

ARENA Working Paper 3/2013 (pdf)

Mai’a K. Davis Cross and Xinru Ma


The EU’s Human Rights Policy. Unpacking the literature on the EU’s implementation of aid conditionality

ARENA Working Paper 2/2013 (pdf)

Johanne Døhlie Saltnes


The Origins of Common Action Capacities. Observations on the recruitment of Member States’ diplomats and officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS)

ARENA Working Paper 1/2013 (pdf)

Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal and Stefan Gänzle

2012

Changing Policy Focus through Organisational Reform? The case of the pharmaceutical unit in the European Commission

ARENA Working Paper 6/2012 (pdf)

Nina Merethe Vestlund


Framing Biotechnology Policy in the European Union

ARENA Working Paper 5/2012 (pdf)

Falk Daviter


Experiments in Supranational Institutionbuilding: The European Commission as a Laboratory

ARENA Working Paper 4/2012 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg


Equal Pay and Dilemmas of Justice

ARENA Working Paper 3/2012 (pdf)

Cathrine Holst


From Fly in the Ointment to Accomplice: Norway in EU Foreign and Security Policy

ARENA Working Paper 2/2012 (pdf)

Helene Sjursen


The Rise of European Adminstrative Space: Lessons Learned

ARENA Working Paper 1/2012 (pdf)

Jarle Trondal and B. Guy Peters

2011

Can You Keep a Secret? How the European Parliament got Access to Sensitive Documents in the Area of Security and Defence

ARENA Working Paper 13/2011 (pdf)

Guri Rosén


On Bureaucratic Centre Formation: Lessons from the European Commission

ARENA Working Paper 14/2011 (pdf)

Jarle Trondal


From Citizens' Deliberation to Popular Will Formation. Generating Democratic Legitimacy Through Transnational Deliberative Polling

ARENA Working Paper 12/2011 (pdf)

Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz


The State's Existence between Facts and Norms. A Reflection on some Problems to the Analysis of the State

ARENA Working Paper 11/2011 (pdf)

Daniel Gaus


Parliament Staff. Background, career patterns and behaviour

ARENA Working Paper 10/2011 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg, Åse Gornitzka, Jarle Trondal and Mathias Johannessen


Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment

ARENA Working Paper 9/2011 (pdf)

Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz


The Dynamics of Legitimation: Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

ARENA Working Paper 8/2011 (pdf)

Daniel Gaus


A “Virtual Third Chamber” for the European Union? National parliaments after the Treaty of Lisbon

ARENA Working Paper 7/2011 (pdf)

Ian Cooper


The OECD Civil Servant. Between Scylla and Charybdis

ARENA Working Paper 6/2011 (pdf)

Martin Marcussen and Jarle Trondal


Representation through deliberation: The European case

ARENA Working Paper 5/2011 (pdf)

Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum


European Citizenship. With a nation-state, federal, or cosmopolitan twist?

ARENA Working Paper 4/2011 (No full text version available)

Espen D. H. Olsen


Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity. Conseptualising the national dimension in Neil MacCormick's post-sovereign constellation

ARENA Working Paper 3/2011 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum


United They Diverge? From conflicts of law to constitutional theory? On Christian Joerges’ theory

ARENA Working Paper 2/2011 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez


From Constitutional Pluralism to a Pluralistic Constitution? Constitutional synthesis as a MacCormickian constitutional theory of European integration

ARENA Working Paper 1/2011 (pdf)

Agustín José Menéndez

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