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National Agencies in the European Administrative Space: Government driven, Commission driven or networked?

Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2007

also this activity is highly contested. Our main conclusion is that implementation of EU policies at the national level is … driven national agencies), nor solely networked (through transnational agency clusters). Implementation is indeed compound …

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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...

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

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

Compliance and style of conflict management in Europe

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2003

Why and to what extent do states differ in their implementation of international norms? Furthermore, why and to what … extent do states differ in their mode of resolving conflicts regarding non-implementation of international norms? In this … article the empirical focus is on implementation of Community legislation by the member states of the European Union (EU) and …

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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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Networking Administration in Areas of National Sensitivity - The Commission and European Higher Education

Gornitzka, Åse - ARENA - 2007

This paper examines the networks that connect the European Commission to various levels of governance within higher education as a policy sector. The central question is how the development of European networked administrative capacity can be understood taking into consideration the traditional...

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The Mosaic of Europeanization. An Organizational Perspective on National Re-contextualization

Andersen, Svein S. - ARENA - 2004

EU-integration is increasing in scope, depth and geographical space. It affects virtually all aspects of policy-making in EU member states. However, at the national level the impact varies widely across countries and sectors. This duality is likely to increase with the enlargement to the East....

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The Dynamics of Legitimation. Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

Gaus, Daniel - ARENA - 2011

The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on...

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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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Understanding Institutions and Logics of Appropriateness: Introductory Essay

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

This section (1) presents three landmark articles that are part of a research agenda launched more than twenty years ago. Then, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life” invited a reappraisal of how political institutions could be conceptualized, to what degree...

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