Quality Assessment in Universities as an organized process is relatively new in Europe (about 30 years old). As many other aspects in education, it is centrally controlled, either by a state agency, or by an independent agency. In the US on the other hand, the top institutions themselves...

This article assesses whether the EU Treaty freedoms - the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital - should be considered as fundamental rights which are hierarchically equal to other fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach...

This essay attempts to go beyond presenting the bits and pieces of – still ongoing – crisis management in the EU. Instead it attempts at finding the ’red thread’ behind a series of politcally improvized decisions. Our fundamental research question asks, if basic economic lessons learned...

This book deals with the political philosophy that underpins theories of European integration and develops an understanding of Europeanization based on downloading and up-loading. Downloading is the means by which EU policy is amalgamated with domestic legislation and institutions. Up-loading...