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Elements of a sociology of European integration

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008

How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...

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EU Governance: Where do we go from here?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

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 whether, and to what degree, there is a transformation in its system of governance? This … reference, and getting beyond the tyranny of dichotomies. It is acknowledged that the “governance turn” in EU-studies is an …

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Innovasjon, politikk og institusjonell dynamikk

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2004

Både i Norge, i mange andre land, i den Europeiske Union og fra internasjonale organisasjoner som OECD, er det gitt uttrykk for et stort behov for mer innovasjon og en helhetlig innovasjonspolitikk. Dette notatet, som slutter seg til forestillingen om at det er behov for en bedre forståelse av...

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Unity, diversity and democratic institutions. What can we learn from the European Union as a large-scale experiment in political organization and governing?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2004

How to reconcile political unity and diversity is a key issue in both democratic practice and theory. Coping with this dilemma activates some basic questions about how we understand political actors, institutions and change. This paper suggests that the evolving European polity is an exciting...

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

usefulness of such an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance is due to the fact that such entities …

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

Olsen, Espen D. H.; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2011

In this article, we critically discuss the issues of discursive quality and democratic legitimacy in deliberative experiments taking place in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting. Our main argument is that while deliberative polls through careful scientific design and organisation may...

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Martha Nussbaum's Outcome-oriented Theory of Justice. Philosophical comments

Holst, Cathrine - ARENA - 2010

The capability approach developed by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen has received substantial attention in recent years, in philosophical exchanges as well as in more applied discussions on policy-making, in particular in developing countries, but lately also in Western countries, including...

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Europe in Search of its Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2002

How can the EU rectify its legitimacy deficit? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. If pursued...

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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...

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The rights’ foundations of solidarity: Social and economic rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2003

‘Rights to solidarity’ is a rather new expression, recently minted in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In this chapter, the term will be used to refer to social and economic rights ; the basic question that will be posed is what the Charter has to say about the...

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