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Democratic government, institutional autonomy and the dynamics of change

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2009

Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611115

The Open Method of Coordination as practice - A watershed in European education policy?

Gornitzka, Åse - ARENA - 2006

This paper asks whether the application of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) represents a fundamental change in how cooperation takes place within education as a policy area at the European level. Based on a case study of a process that eventually would lead to the “Education and Training...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040209

Higher Education as a Form of European Integration: How Novel is the Bologna Process?

Corbett, Anne - ARENA - 2006

This paper argues that at a time in which higher education has become central to the concerns of EU institutions as well as national governments, it is helpful to understand current policy initiatives - both the spin offs from the EU’s Lisbon strategy and the intergovernmental Bologna Process...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040210

Understanding Institutions and Logics of Appropriateness: Introductory Essay

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

ago. Then, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life” invited a reappraisal of how political …, are maintained, and change. “The new institutionalism” offers a perspective on how political life is organized, functions … wider social context of politics. In contrast with an older institutionalism that used formal-legal rules as proxies for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040217

Institutional Stimulation of Deliberative Decision-Making:Technical Regulation in the European Union

Gehring, Thomas - ARENA - 2007

Institutions based upon the systematic separation of different decision functions may stimulate deliberative decision-making, if they hinder negotiators from introducing their bargaining power into the negotiation process. Such arrangements exist for the regulation of requirements for health and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040218

Conjunctural Causation in Comparative Case-Oriented Research: Exploring the Scope Conditions of Rationalist and Institutionalist Causal Mechanisms

Aus, Jonathan P. - ARENA - 2005

This paper highlights one of the major benefits of qualitative comparative methodology as applied within a “small-N” research design, namely its potential use for specifying the scope conditions of (theoretically competing) causal mechanisms. It is argued that the identification of...

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Europeanization and multi-level governance: Empirical findings and conceptual challenges

Bache, Ian - ARENA - 2008

This paper draws on material from a recently-published book that considers the extent to which Europeanization advances multi-level governance within member states and, if so, of what type(s), and through what processes. The empirical focus is on EU cohesion policy and particularly the domestic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040223

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

EU Governance in an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Logics of Decision-making in the Justice and Home Affairs Council

Aus, Jonathan P. - ARENA - 2007

This collection of articles examines some of the legislative cornerstones of the emerging EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in light of the research question whether the relevant decision-making processes in the Justice and Home Affairs Council may best be understood from a Rationalist or...

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Mellom økonomi og kultur: Det europeiske universitetet i endring

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

Is the European Research University going to be a historical parenthesis? The question has been raised, yet there is no agreed-upon answer, and this article aims at providing a framework for making sense of the current dynamics of the University. The key issue is: What kind of university and...

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