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  • Capacity, Willingness, and Sovereign Default Risk: Reassuring the Market in Times of Crisis 
    Bølstad, Jørgen; Elhardt, Christoph (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 ...
  • Is there a rational public? 
    Bølstad, Jørgen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Popular notions of democracy assume that citizens have policy preferences that can and should be reflected in public policy. Elections provide citizens with the opportunity to select representatives with whom they agree, ...
  • Not all treaties are created equal: the effects of treaty changes on legislative efficiency in the EU 
    Bølstad, Jørgen; Cross, James P. (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 ...