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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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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The bureaucratic arms of modern international organizations increasingly consist of staff with ambiguous organizational affiliations. This article analyses the implications of this trend from the perspective of representative ...
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(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, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The Lisbon Treaty gave the European Parliament (EP) considerable new powers in the field of external trade policy. This is puzzling, as there is little to support dominant explanations such as bargaining on the part of the ...
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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, 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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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’ ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study deals with the German Federal Government’s approach of ensuring public support for its ‘Energiewende’, the swift and complete transition to an energy system based on renewable sources. First, the government’s ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2017)
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The European Union (EU) is the world’s biggest donor of aid to developing countries. The provision of EU aid is conditional on respect for human rights and democratic principles in the recipient countries. This article ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Studies show that public administrations that practise merit-based recruitment of their personnel are significantly less marked by corruption than administrations that do not recruit in this manner. While we know a lot ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Justifications for extending the Union’s boundaries to include new Member States have been much discussed. Only since the Brexit referendum have justifications for shrinking the Union’s boundaries through withdrawals of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper discusses the conditions for legitimate expert arrangements within a democratic order and from a deliberative systems approach. It is argued that standard objections against the political role of experts are ...