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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
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(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)A unique political animal, the European Union has given rise to important constitutional conundrums and paradoxes that John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez explore in detail in this book. The authors consider the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)In this article, we confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting. To illustrate our argument, we rely on an analysis of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)What could be the legitimation basis of the European Union (EU)? This article questions the idea of two constitution-making subjects in the EU and claim there is and can only be one constituting subject even in a multilevel ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2015)Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Expert advice in political processes is supposed to improve decisions. If expertise fails in this function, a legitimacy problem occurs: granting political power to experts may be defensible, but only on the grounds that ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article examines the cases of the European Defence Agency (EDA) and EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (IntCen) to argue that although they are comprised of high-level security experts, they do not constitute epistemic ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)The elaborate system of expert groups that the European Commission organises is a key feature of EU everyday governance and also a potential channel of societal involvement in EU policy making. This article examines the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)The European Commission has faced increasing criticism that its use of expertise in policy-making is undemocratic and politicized. In response to critics, the Commission has produced a number of publicly available documents ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Few attempts have been made to develop a systematic normative analysis of where differentiated integration may need justification, and by what standards. This contribution argues that differentiated integration should be ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)The participation of the public in framing and debating the news has added a new layer in the making of European Union contestation and the European public sphere, traditionally driven by journalists and political elites. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)How, if at all, does the Commission’s expertise inform intergovernmental decision-making within the EU? In this article, we aim to capture the relationship between the Commission’s expertise and its influence within ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)When Norwegian citizens voted no to European Union membership, the idea that it would be possible to conduct a foreign policy that was different from that of the European great powers if the country remained outside the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Do European Union (EU) administrative networks help to preserve executive power at the member state level, or centralize executive power at the EU level? This article examines how resource pooling takes place in the European ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper explores the shifting significance of accountability processes and why they sometimes attract considerable public attention and citizens’ involvement, whereas at other times they escape public notice. Accountability ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)Moral experts — people who presumably know more about moral issues than others — play an important role in giving advice to governments on how to deal with ethical questions through ethics committees. The existence of these ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The Defence and Security Procurement Directive (DSDP) is the first supranational policy in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and represents a departure from the standard understanding of the CSDP as intergovernmental. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)This study shows how the EU’s new Common Foreign and Security policy (CFSP) administration – the European External Action Service (EEAS) – experienced early organisational settlement. We find that the EEAS acts relatively ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)As an area of research, specifying crucial conditions under which international public administration (IPA) may enjoy independence from member-state governments has become an increasingly vibrant research area. This ...