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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...

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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 …

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

Institutional autonomy and democratic government

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

implications for the public sector’s core principles of organization and governance and for the role of the territorial state in … society, and this essay asks how we can make sense of New Public Management (NPM) inspired autonomy reforms. First, an …

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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 …

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Organization theory, public administration, democratic governance

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

and developments in the context of democratic governance. The approach is here called the ‘Bergen approach’ because it …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040463

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...

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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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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...

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

Kassim, Hussein; Menon, Anand - ARENA - 2004

at the centre of debates about the European Union. In the 1990s, the new institutionalism and the multi-level governance …

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

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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