ISL Working Papers
ISL Working Papers are pre-prints of articles, book chapters and reports published by faculty members of the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder.
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The Commission and the challenges of differentiation post-Brexit : its role and the new inter-institutional balance
(ISL Working Papers, Working paper, 2018-01)Over the last few years the process of European integration has been challenged by several crises. The prompt responses given to them often led the governments of the Member States rather than by EU institutions to take ... -
Differentiated integration and disintegration in the European Union : State-of-the-art and ways for future research
(ISL Working paper; no 1, Working paper, 2017)Following the United Kingdom (UK)’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) on 23 June 2016, the process of European integration is now at a critical juncture. Leaving aside Greenland’s departure from the European Community ... -
DISECTING INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(Working paper, 2016-04-14)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 special ... -
The European Ombudsman : A Resilient Institution in a Turbulent, Evolving Administrative Order
(2015, Working paper, 2016-01-08)One relatively unstudied development in the European Union’s evolving multilayered administrative system is the development of the ombudsman as a core institution of governance. At the national level, nearly all EU Member ... -
EU Foreign Relations after Lisbon : Tackling the Security-Development Nexus?
(ISL Working Papers; no. 3, Working paper, 2015-11-13)The 2009 Lisbon Treaty sought to enhance the coherence of EU foreign policies by improving the conditions for collective action in the EU-level foreign relations system, including its interaction with member states. Several ... -
Humboldt meets Schumpeter? Interpreting the ‘Entrepreneurial Turn’ in European Higher Education
(ISL Working Papers; no 2, Working paper, 2015)Universities are increasingly pressurized to respond to external imperatives and demands, while, at the same time, being expected to enhance both their efficiency and accountability. This is leading to the local adoption ... -
SHAPING A COLLABORATION: THE SPITZENKANDIDATEN PROCEDURE AS A TRANSPARENT BEST PRACTICE
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2015)ABSTRACT: The spitzenkandidaten procedure has been described as a coup d’état of the parliament against the council; a counter-revolution of the S&D against the PPE; something short of an illegal move against the treaties. ... -
EISS 2014 Keynote speech: The election of the Commission President in 2014: What does it tell us about democracy in the European Union?
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2014)On 15 July 2014 the European Parliament elected Jean Claude Juncker, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, as the next President of the European Commission. It was the final act in a process which had proved more ... -
Strategizing Identity in Higher Education
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2014)There is a growing body of literature shedding light on processes of strategy making within public universities. Yet, to date, only a handful of studies have analysed the role that organizational identity plays in such ... -
Conceptualizing the European Multilevel Administrative Order. Capturing variation in the European administrative system
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2014)Departing from the observation that both analysts and practitioners face problems of meaningful categorization of social order in general and the European political-administrative system in particular, this paper suggests ... -
Briefing note - The Emerging Core of the EU’s Macro-regional Governance Architecture: Mapping the Roles, Tasks and Self-Perceptions of Priority Area Coordinators and Horizontal Action Leaders in the EU Strategies for the Baltic Sea and the Danube Regions
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2014)Macro-regional strategies of the European Union (EU), such as the ones for the Baltic Sea and the Danube Regions, are relatively new elements of EU cohesion policy. Targeting EU member and partner countries alike, these ... -
Bureaucratic structure, geographical location and the autonomy of administrative systems. Evidence from the European External Action Service
(ISL Working Papers;2013:7, Working paper, 2013)Formulating and implementing public policy in Europe has historically been a prerogative of national administrations. This paper explores how these prerogatives may have become challenged with the ‘autonomization’ of the ... -
European Union Foreign Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon:Chartering the Contours of the European External Action Service
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2013)The EU’s newly established diplomatic service, the European External Action Service (EEAS), has attracted research interest from several sub-disciplines in political science and law. Two gaps in the contemporary literature, ... -
'Macro-regionalisation' as a New Form of European Governance: The Case of the Europeans Union's Strategies for the Baltic Sea and the Danube Regions
(ISL Working Papers; 2013:3, Working paper, 2013)Abstract: With the adoption of the EU Strategies for the Baltic Sea Region in 2009 and the Danube Region in 2011, the European Union (EU) set out to forge a new ‘macro-regional’ approach focussing on functional and territorial ... -
Agencification
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2013)One persistent theme in public administration is whether a government portfolio should be organized as an integrated ministry or as a dual organization composed of a ministerial department and one or several semi-detached ... -
Organized systems and the ambiguities of behavior and change. Lessons from universities and jazz orchestras
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2013)Institutional change entails balancing multiple competing, inconsistent and often loosely coupled demands and concerns, often simultaneously. The ambition of this chapter is to discuss how organizations balance seemingly ... -
Differentiated Integration and the Nordic States: the Case of Norway
(ISL Working Papers;2013:2, Working paper, 2013)Since the early 1990s, the relationship between Norway and the European Union (EU) became increasingly complex and accounts for about three quarters of the European legislation. Despite the outcome of the 1994 referendum ... -
NASJONAL ADMINISTRATIV SUVERENITET – MYTE ELLER REALITET?
(ISL Working Papers;2013, Working paper, 2013)Til tross for EUs overnasjonale karakter på de fleste politikkområder, har det vært vanlig å si at også medlemsstatene nyter en form for administrativ suverenitet. Med dette menes at selv om EUs politikk (for eksempel i ... -
The European Union’s development policy: a balancing act between ‘a more comprehensive approach’ and creeping securitisation
(ISL Working Papers;2012:11, Working paper, 2012)‘Security’ has become prominent in official EU development discourse in recent years, and references to security concerns are routinely included in policy statements and documents. Our objective in this paper is to determine ... -
Are international bureaucracies vehicles for the common good?
(ISL Working Papers;, Working paper, 2012)This paper challenges widely held claims that international bureaucracies lack the potential to profoundly shape the behaviour, roles and identities of its personnel, and that the role of international civil servants are ...
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