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(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 ...
(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, 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)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article is about democratic accountability and a Europe struggling to find viable answers to the questions of who and what shall constitute “Europe” and how to develop legitimate political institutions for governing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The question posed in this article is how to explain that the governance of secrecy in EU external relations varies. While the Common Foreign and Security Policy appears to retain its secretive character, the EU’s external ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
How can we understand the role of secrecy in the making of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)? This article analyses the nature of secrecy and questions some of the main assumptions surrounding ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
International institutions are proliferating over a wide range of issue areas, creating what have recently been described as regime complexes. More than complicated arrangements, regime complexes are structures: they are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Expertise has been highlighted as a central source of power and legitimacy within the European Union system, and has been pointed to as one explanation of the relative influence of EU institutions in policy-making processes. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article contributes to the contemporary foreign policy debate about how norms influence policymakers’ behaviour. Hypotheses of norm-driven action are frequently dismissed when norms are inconsistently followed. However, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article examines pro-European mobilisation in the United Kingdom following the European Union (EU) referendum. It develops a framework that combines Isin’s ‘acts of citizenship’ with Nancy Fraser’s three dimensions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The UN Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995 was a landmark event resulting in the famous Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action. In 2015, a review of the implementation of the 1995 Beijing agenda — Beijing 20 — ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The European Union’s foreign and security policy is commonly described as an intergovernmental affair. Despite limited formal powers, several studies suggest that the European Parliament has increased its influence on the ...
(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, 2018)
How do the EU and the US respond to rising powers making territorial claims? Are they unified in their approaches, and if not, where do their policies diverge? Transatlantic unity or dissent in response to main geopolitical ...
(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, 2018)
Recurrent claims of selective and inconsistent implementation of the European Union’s (EU) human rights clause questions the legitimacy basis of the Union’s human rights policy. If the EU’s actions do not match its rhetoric, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The role of scientists as experts is crucial to public policymaking. However, the expert role is contested and unsettled in both public and scholarly discourse. In this paper, I provide a systematic account of the role of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In the run up to the 2014 European Parliament elections, the new Spitzenkandidaten process and European-wide party campaigns were considered a mechanism to create a more engaged European public. However, right-wing Eurosceptic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Formålet med denne studien er å belyse departementsansattes rolle i europeisk flernivåforvaltning i tidsperioden 1996 til 2016. Studien argumenterer for at organisatoriske variabler på nasjonalt nivå er avgjørende for ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
When the member states of the European Union (EU) accepted the Defence and Security Procurement Directive, the expectation was that they would be able to retain a substantial amount of autonomy. During the implementation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
At first glance, one might view the political differentiation in the European Union as a reflection of the autonomy of its member states, signifying flexibility and the dispersion of democratic control. However, under ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study questions the traditional story of the detachment and independence of expert bodies such as agencies, central banks and expert committees. It directs attention to the numerous institutional links with elected ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Policy-making in democratic systems involves the consultation of affected interests as well as relevant expertise. Yet, who provides decision-makers with input and how this has changed over time is a matter of contention. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Denne artikkelen ser nærmere på forskeres deltakelse i politikkutforming ved å ta utgangspunkt i en sentral del av den norske politikkutformingsprosessen: NOU-utvalgene (Norges Offentlige Utredninger). Den undersøker ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
ABSTRACT. It might be thought that Brexit is just a case of the UK getting honest with itself and its partners. On that interpretation, much British opinion never really accepted European integration. Hence, the UK should ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Dette essayet tar utgangspunkt i arbeidet med å bygge opp faget Offentlig administrasjon og organisasjonskunnskap i Bergen på slutten av 1960-tallet og ut over 1970-tallet, med Knut Dahl Jacobsen som “the founding father”. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The deep transformation of the practice of European law calls for a systematic rethinking of the theories with the help of which European law is analysed, reconstructed and assessed. In this Article, I test the reconstructive ...
(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. ...