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EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT(S) Executive Politics in Transition?

Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2007

The paper starts by discussing what I think most students of government hold to be the most characteristic features of development over the last couple of decades; namely ‘agencification’ and fragmentation of national governments. Interestingly, when dealing with the problems such a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040322

The Purse of the Polity. Tax power in the European Union

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

This paper describes the actual constitutional, legislative and collecting tax powers in the hands of the Union. It proceeds first to unpack the very idea of tax power, and to distinguish its elements. On such a basis, I proceed to consider European norms and practices, and to reconstruct on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040225

Bicameral Politics in the European Union

Hoyland, Bjorn; Hagemann, Sara - ARENA - 2007

formal relationship between the EU institutions. It shows that the Council has the upper hand in bicameral negotiations as it …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040252

Polecats, Foxes and Lions - Social Choice, Moral Philosophy and the Justification of the European Union as a Restrained yet Capable form of Political Power

Lord, Christopher - ARENA - 2009

them to harm. Nowadays, non-arbitrary political power is often understood as requiring governing institutions to strike a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611108

Parties and Cleavages in the European Political Space

Heidar, Knut - ARENA - 2003

What kind of political system is the European Union and what will it be like in the future? Questions about the present and the future are hard to keep apart as the EU is an evolving project, currently engaged in the twin processes of enlargement and constitution making. When discussing the...

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Reasserting the nation state

Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 2009

Scholarly debate on party-based Euroscepticism centers on the questions of how to define, measure and explain Euroscepticism. As a starting point, this paper observes that studies on Euroscepticism either focus on the positions of individual parties on issues of European integration or on the...

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Representation through deliberation. The European case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2011

This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...

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Bilateral diplomacy in an integrated Europe: the co-existence of institutional orders?

Bratberg, Øivind - ARENA - 2007

Bilateral diplomacy is typically portrayed as under threat by European integration, which has forged direct links between sectoral ministries, introduced an all-embracing policy arena in Brussels and, arguably, rendered traditional embassy representation irrelevant. This paper questions whether...

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Understanding Institutions and Logics of Appropriateness: Introductory Essay

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

institutions could be conceptualized, to what degree institutions have independent and endurable implications, the kinds of … political phenomena they impact, the mechanisms through which they do so, and the processes through which institutions emerge …-interested actors maximizing their expected utility. Second, a society-centered perspective that sees political institutions and …

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The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

bureaucratization and de-bureaucratization is offered. Institutions, agency, and macro forces all matter, but there is no agreement …

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