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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article develops a standard for evaluating how parliaments can contribute to the legitimacy of the European semester. It then uses that standard to identify where national parliaments may be able to oversee the semester ...
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In the first part of the chapter, I discuss the role of digital media in crisis communication and identify the conditions under which social media can spearhead a shift in public communication dynamics. In the second part ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The Eurocrisis has generated a deep and ongoing politicization of the EU within and across national public spheres, fuelling age-old and new political and social conflicts, which in turn shape public perceptions of crisis ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
Contemporary governance relies extensively and increasingly on academic expertise. This expertise dependency is intimately related to the technological and regulatory complexity and level of specialization of modern society. ...
(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 ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2017)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Recent work on digital political engagement has extensively shown that social media platforms enhance political participation and collective action. However, the idea that citizen voice through social media can give rise, ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The purpose of this collection is to discuss what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms. Our point of departure is that this represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establishing ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2017)
I denne oppgaven studeres den politiske prosessen knyttet til et direktivforslag for å forbedre kjønnsbalansen i europeiske bedriftsstyrer. Direktivforslaget ble fremmet av EU-kommisjonen høsten 2012 og har blitt vedtatt ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
There is arguably no security crisis so great as the one that stems from climate change. For some time, the EU, rather than the US, has led the way in terms of far-ranging policies to reduce carbon emissions. But despite ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Norway is a somewhat exceptional country in Europe in political terms. It is one of the few European countries that are not members of the European Union (EU). Rather it has structured its connections with European ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this article I enquire into the sources of legitimacy of the European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy. I suggest that as the EU has moved beyond intergovernmentalism in this policy field, it cannot derive ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
The European Union’s defence and security policy has remained predominately under the sovereign control of the member states, and therefore the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is understood to be intergovernmental. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I argue the European Central Bank shows how mutually defining are i) the epistemic assumptions of independent central banking; ii) the powers of a central bank; iii) the political order in which it operates and iv) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Commissions appointed to examine and propose solutions to major policy problems play a vital role in policy formulation in the Nordic countries. Whereas existing accounts emphasize the corporatist and statist features of ...
(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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
From the opinion-swinging British tabloids which have become synonymous with anti-EU sentiment, especially during the ‘Brexit year’ of 2016, to the Commission’s Euromyths-busting service, dedicated to counteract Eurosceptic ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
(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. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The renewed emphasis on national political boundaries across Europe would seem to go hand-in-hand with a weaker external personality for the EU. However, there are several prominent examples of EU leadership that challenge ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Deliberation has not only epistemic and moral value, it also has transformative value. Even if deliberation faces the problem of indeterminacy, it is assumed to have explanatory power. This article spells out why this is ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2017)
What is the role of secrecy in crafting EU foreign policy? This paper analyzes the concept of secrecy in governance, and argues that to some degree secrecy is of functional necessity for policy-makers. Despite common ...
(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 ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2017)
Since its inception, the European Union has proclaimed an ambition to promote values and justice at the global level. In this paper, I discuss how we can assess a foreign policy that has such an ambition. There is no common ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
A resilient actor is one with the capacity to recover from setbacks and obstacles, whether stemming from endogenous or exogenous factors. Beyond actual recovery, this article argues that there is also an important perceptional ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
ABSTRACT. This article shows how the substantive bias at the core of the present socio-economic constitution of the European Union is directly related to the characterization of economic freedoms (crucially, the right to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
One of the key motives behind recent reforms of the EU's legislative process has been to increase efficiency. This study examines whether the Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon treaties have successfully increased the speed with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Can a directly elected European Parliament help deliver standards by which the European Union can be indirectly legitimated through its component national democracies? This article argues that the Union can be indirectly ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
The concept of global justice implies that there are principles of justice with a global reach – that is, that the conditions of justice have been globalised in one way or another. Reconsidering European Contributions to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Europe has been badly hit by several overlapping crises. This article explores how they were triggered by and, in turn, aggravated a structural crisis of European law. It spells out the concrete implications of ‘austerity’ ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2016)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Abstract In this article, we discuss the democratic conditions for parliamentary oversight in EU foreign affairs. Our point of departure is two Interinstitutional Agreements (IIAs) between the Council and the European ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This study focuses on the epistemic quality of the policy expertise that is generated by stakeholder advisory bodies. Bringing together science and technology studies, deliberative democratic theory and social epistemology, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The EU is committed to promoting human rights through its development policy. This article argues that its expansive human rights framework has led to EU‐internal and outside‐in politicization of LGBTI rights in Uganda. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Individuals' role perceptions are central guides to their behavior and choices as members of an organization. Understanding organizational dynamics thus requires knowledge about the determinants of such role perceptions, ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The study challenges the widespread assumption that the decision rule of ‘consensus’, whereby decisions are made by “tacit consent”, i.e. without voting and through the absence of open dissent, attributes veto power to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Acknowledging that both analysts and practitioners face problems of meaningful categorization of social order in general, and the European political-administrative system in particular, this article suggests a conceptual ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This paper attempts to define the EU system of government through an innovative approach that, taking into account both the legal framework and the political practice, focuses on the confidence relationship between the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The study demonstrates how the EU contributes to a self-reinforcing administrative bias due to domestic-level organizational factors. Strong European integration without membership reinforces a politico-administrative gap ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2019)
The paper compares two prominent approaches to global gender justice; Alison Jaggar’s ‘distributive’ approach and Nancy Fraser’s ‘participatory’ approach. It argues that both theories have contributed valuably to develop ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2019)
Does European Union (EU) foreign economic policy contribute to global justice or does it further neo-colonial structures of economic dependence? To assess this question, we evaluate if and how the EU’s ‘Aid for Trade’ (AfT) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
A rights-based approach to development, a cornerstone of the European Union’s (EU) development policy, can be interpreted as an attempt to govern development assistance through impartial rules and standards. Yet, such an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This article sets out three ambitions: First, it argues in favor of adopting “turbulence” as a conceptual device for understanding governance in times of dynamic interactive change. Second, the article distinguishes three ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Preserving the trust of bond markets is crucial for the world's many indebted countries, but it is still unclear when and how national or international actors can contribute to this goal. We present a set of arguments ...
(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2019)
In this paper, Johanne Døhlie Saltnes recasts the story of the like-minded’s intermediate resistance and subsequent acceptance of the EU’s aid effectiveness reforms from one of competing interests and identities to one of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
In this chapter, we critically scrutinize two interrelated responses to the challenges of representative democracy: the new ideology of professionalism and the ideology of de-professionalised participation. Both variants ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
How is arbitrary rule – dominance – to be avoided when political differentiation is on the rise in the multilevel constellation that makes up the European Union? The EU is a power-wielding entity, that, due to its democratic ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
It is widely held that the EU suffers from a democratic deficit, but there is no agreement on the specific nature of the deficit. In this paper, I start by specifying the nature of the democratic-legitimacy problem facing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
It is often claimed that medical professionals are subject to conflicting duties in their role morality. Some hold that the overridden duty taints the professional and generates a patient claim to a form of moral compensation. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Recent trade negotiations in the EU have provoked unprecedented levels of controversy, in particular the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US. One crucial channel for public ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article explores the problems the EU and the SRB face in trying to implement a credible system for resolving banks without the use of taxpayer funds as a key part of banking union that avoids the doom loop between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Det ligger mye makt i makten til å utrede. Vi bør bry oss mer om hvem vi gir i oppdrag å utrede offentlig politikk – og hvordan utrederne leverer. For å kunne si om norsk utredningsvesen holder mål eller ikke, må vi ha en ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This editorial introduction presents an overview of the themes explored in the symposium on Deliberation after Consensus. For all the talk of its obsolescence and irrelevance, the concept of consensus still remains centrally ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in such institutions? This paper starts ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Kommentaren tar for seg fire trekk ved det Helga Hernes kalte «det kvinnevennlige sosialdemokratiske medborgerskapsidealet»: dets brodd mot liberalismen, vekten på politisk deltagelse og sosiale rettigheter, og ideen om ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Mange samfunnsvitere forsker på politikk – som hovedtema eller i forlengelsen av andre forskningsinteresser. Når samfunnsforskere studerer politikk, konsentrerer de seg typisk om å fortolke og forklare politiske prosesser ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study explores the room for reconciliation between democratic and epistemic claims to modern policy-making. The key institutional design question it deals with is how to compose arenas of policy advice and consultation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Epistemic democrats are rightly concerned with the quality of outcomes and judge democratic procedures in terms of their ability to ‘track the truth’. However, their impetus to assess ‘rule by experts’ and ‘rule by the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Utgangspunktet for artikkelen er de utfordringer europeiske representative demokratier, og spesielt sentraladministrasjonen, står overfor. Diskusjoner om forvaltningens demokratiske kvalitet kan foregå innenfor en stabil ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Community law was established as a meta-legal order to provide a systematic solution to conflicts betweeen national legal orders. Integration, and in particular integration of law, was required to tackle the functional and ...
(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 ...
Can Brexit Improve Our Understanding of “Wicked Problems”? Reflections on Policy and Political Order
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The main purpose of this article is to improve the wicked problem framework by incorporating the problem of political order, as it appears in the context of Brexit. The first part specifies what is meant by political order ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewedPeer reviewed, 2019)
The aim of this article is to examine the role of ministerial officials in an integrated European multilevel administrative order. This study argues that organizational variables at the national level constitute a decisive ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
Benefiting from a novel data set spanning nearly half a century, this study probes the sustainability of public governance. Theoretically, it examines how sustainable public governance rests on its organizational fabric. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The Lisbon Treaty gave the European Parliament extensive new powers and its consent is now required for the vast majority of EU international agreements. At the same time, national parliaments—and even regional ones—are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Public organizations are subject to many kinds of control mechanisms and analysts worry that they often suffer from an “accountability overload.” This article argues that such diagnoses are typically set without an adequate ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Migration is a topic that has frequently been present in political debates and the mass media in recent years, especially following the European and EU migration and refugee crisis. Newspaper debates in Norway presented ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Administrative reform policies cutting across several sectors are commonplace in the public sector. However, reform policies do not necessarily result in organizational change. This article examines intra-organizational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The strength of solidarity ties among individuals is often discussed in relation to membership within a community of equals. This assumes strong links between reported solidarity actions, political attitudes, and national ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Brexit is a high‐stakes political process, but there is still no clear understanding of the political factors that underpin the various affiliation modes that the UK is currently debating. These are treated as quite static ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This paper contributes to discussions surrounding interest group representation in the European Parliament. Drawing from conceptualizations of legitimacy, and theoretical work on information-access we argue that different ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
In the aftermath of the British referendum to leave the European Union and the European Commission's ‘White Paper on the Future of Europe’, it is not only time to take stock of the existing literature on differentiated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Online media have transformed the political news landscapes, changing not only professional journalistic practices but also the way in which citizens participate in political communication. In the debate about the impact ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article contributes to the philosophical debate on values in science by exploring how scientists themselves understand the proper role of moral, political, and social values in expert practice. I present findings from ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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Security forces are one of the main targets of political violence. This paper examines the effect of their casualties on electoral outcomes. Between two general elections in 2015, Turkey experienced a series ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It shows that there are numerous institutional links with elected bodies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Does the EU’s Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative contribute to global justice? Complementing work that considers distributive justice, in this paper we adopt the central tenets of the republican theory of non-domination as a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
In the fight against climate change, renewable energy has been subsidised in many countries. With the costs passed onto consumers, governments are paying those, for example, who instal domestic solar panels on top of their ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This study traces the claims of a ‘scientization’ and a ‘participatory turn’ in modern governance within the system of temporary policy advisory committees in Norway. It analyzes whether there is evidence of the two claims ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Although not a member of the EU, Norway is deeply affected by European integration, owing to its participation, since 1994, in the EEA Agreement which made Norway a full participant in EU’s internal market. Norway’s ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Public organizations are compound bodies characterized by competing endogenous dynamics of governance. This study makes two main contributions. First, it contributes to an organizational approach to studies of public policy ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
To what extent has Brexit affected Norwegians’ perceptions of their current relationship with the EU? What are the considerations that central political and societal actors bring up to explain their stances? What are the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
The European Union seeks to adjust its external policies to the shifting challenges of the international order. As part of this adjustment, the European Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen embarked on a mission to ...