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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Recent scholarly literature on the EU’s development policy has argued that the Union is using its provision of development cooperation to advance its geo-strategic interests. This paper investigates whether there has been ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article considers established metrics for smart city development and evaluates their suitability for implementation in Arctic urban settlements. To do this, the article first surveys smart city literature and the ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The increased authority delegated to independent agencies raises questions about the conditions of politically accountable governance, and specifically parliament’s role as a representative institution. Focusing on committee ...
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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 ...
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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)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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article outlines an organisation theory approach to meta-governance by illustrating how public organisations may organise policy change and reform by (re-)designing organisational choice-architectures. First, it ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract International institutions are facing increasing criticism of the legitimacy of their authority. But what does it mean for an international institution to be legitimate? Arthur Applbaum’s latest book ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper contributes to an on-going exchange in political theory on the normative legitimacy of expert bodies. It focuses on epistemic worries about the expertisation of politics, and uses the Nordic system of advisory ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)When is differentiated integration (DI) of the European Union a source of autonomy and when is it a source of domination? Much depends on what collective goods member state democracies seek through integration. Club goods ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The EU’s approach to what it describes as “banking union” is not what one would design with a clean slate. It reflects the political constraints and the path of history. This paper compares the institutional and operational ...
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(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 ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This is an accepted version of a chapter in the book Towards Gendering Institutionalism, edited by Heather MacRae and Elaine Weiner. © 2017 Rowman & Littlefield International
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Improving policy deliberation is a central objective for theEuropean Union's institutions. Focusing on the European Parlia-ment's committee hearings as an understudied area of Europeangovernance, we aim to understand their ...
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(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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)How is the power of independent agencies legitimized? This is a central question in modern democratic societies. Earlier research has privileged technical expertise as the predominant source of legitimacy for such agencies. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Literature on European security and defence cooperation usually asserts that differences in national security interests and security cultures prevent agreement beyond the “lowest common denominator”. I propose that it is ...
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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 ...