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Maybe it is time to rediscover bureaucracy?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2005

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards market- or network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040201

The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over many years and is possibly experiencing a renaissance? Normative democratic theory, theories of formal organizations, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040226

Organising Institutional Autonomy in a Political Context: Enduring Tensions in the European Commission's Development

Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2004

The High Authority, later the European Commission, was indeed an organisational innovation. Unlike international governmental organisations, it should from its very inception be able to act independently of national governments. Its autonomy was to be justified by its role as a promoter of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040246

European Integration Since the 1990s: Member States and the European Commission

Kassim, Hussein; Menon, Anand - ARENA - 2004

The relationship between the member states and the Commission is at the heart of the EU's institutional structure and … approach emphasised the limitations of state power in EU decision making and stressed the ability of the supranational … continue to shift from national government to the supranational bodies of the EU, integration since the 1990s has been marked …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040264

EU Governance: Where do we go from here?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

reference, and getting beyond the tyranny of dichotomies. It is acknowledged that the “governance turn” in EU-studies is an … governance – treated as exclusive alternatives - are the most useful analytical tools for improving the understanding of EU … developments. The main argument is that the analysis of the EU system of governance can benefit from being better related to some …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040269

Elaborating the "New Institutionalism"

March, James G.; Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2005

To sketch an institutional approach, this paper elaborates ideas presented over 20 years ago in The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life (March and Olsen 1984). Institutionalism, as that term is used here, connotes a general approach to the study of political...

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Citizens, public administration and the search for theoretical foundations

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2003

Many students of public administration have claimed, as rationale for the field, that the Prince, the President, the Legislator or the Ruling Class needs help. In contrast, John Gaus argued that it is the citizens who need help. From the latter perspective, the questions become, under what...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040352

Institutional autonomy and democratic government

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

Over the last three decades many public sector reforms have aimed at giving administrative agencies and non-majoritarian institutions more autonomy from majority-based institutions and common sets of rules. The detachment-from-politics trend has implications for the public sector’s core...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040382

The Public Administration Turn in Integration Research

Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2007

and European Union (EU) governance. The public administration turn in integration research has brought generic insights …-executive institutions such as the European Commission; (ii) the conditional autonomy of sub-ordinate administrative units such as EU …-level agencies; (iii) the integration of multilevel administrative systems through collegial structures such as EU-level committees …

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The Denationalisation of the Cabinets in the European Commission. A Research Note

Egeberg, Morten; Heskestad, Andreas - ARENA - 2008

The cabinets of the European Commission are seen to play a crucial role in the policy-making process. So far, however, they have in many respects remained ‘black boxes’. In this paper we ‘unpack’ the demographic composition in terms of nationality of the three latest commissions’...

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