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Administrative fusion : towards a European "mega-administration"?
(CES Working Papers;2007:2;, Working paper, 2007)This study offers an organisation theory approach on administrative fusion. It is argued that the differentiated organisatational constellation of the European Union contributes to a differentiated fusion of domestic core ... -
After hierarchy? : integration and differentiation within Scandinavian Central Administrations
(CES Working Papers;2005:3;, Working paper, 2005)This study demonstrates that the differentiated organisatational constellation of the European Union (EU) contribute to a differentiated penetration of domestic government decision-making processes. The question posed is ... -
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 ... -
Agenda setting in the European Commission : how tha European Commission structure and influence the EU agenda
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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 ... -
Bevegelser i Norsk vindkraftpolitikk – drivkrefter, motkrefter og fremtidige utfordringer
(Research report, 2020)Norsk vindkraftutvikling har etter to tiår med lav utbyggingstakt, sett en kraftig økt installert kapasitet. Samtidig er vindkraft blitt gjenstand for et høyt konfliktnivå både på lokalt til nasjonalt nivå. Det er vokst ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Customary nationalism in crisis: protest, identity and politics in eSwatini
(Journal article, 2023)The Kingdom of eSwatini is undergoing its worst political and humanitarian crisis in postcolonial times. In June-July 2021, the indiscriminate killing and torturing of pro-democracy protesters by the military and the police ... -
De-territorialisering av offentlig politikk? : europeisk integrasjon og sub-regionale beslutningsprosesser
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
EU Committee governance and the emerging community administration
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EU committees as sites of europeanisation
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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 ... -
Europas politiske orden i endring
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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, ...