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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 … organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and … identities and institutional balances. The argument is not that bureaucratic organization is a panacea and the answer to all …

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

approach emphasised the limitations of state power in EU decision making and stressed the ability of the supranational …

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

EU Governance: Where do we go from here?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

How can students of the European Union get from describing recent advances, to speculating about what are possible new directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the understanding how the Union is overned and...

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