Nettsider med emneord «democracy» - Side 3
The project aims at contributing to our understanding of the democracy concept's structure, and to improve measurement of democracy and its sub-components. Furthermore, the project investigates how democracy, and various constitutional- and other institutional structures, affect economic growth, inequality, conflict and stability of political institutions and regimes.
This paper scrutinises MacCormick’s liberal nationalism. It is argued that a cosmopolitan constitutional patriotism might be a more suitable mode of allegiance for the post-sovereign constellation.
ARENA Working Paper 3/2011 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum
Geert Mak has followed in John Steinbeck's path on his trip to the USA. Euope has much to learn from the American project whether we like it or not.
In this paper, Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou analyse Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy contestation.
ARENA Working Paper 14/2010 (pdf)
Pieter de Wilde, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou
The paper critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling, and argues that the ruling and the justification speak to several – distinctly different – models of democracy.
ARENA Working Paper 09/2010 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
This paper contributes to the philosophical exchanges of Nussbaum’s version of the capability approach. Nussbaum herself presents her contribution as an alternative to John Rawls’ theory of justice, and following her lead, this paper compares Nussbaum and Rawls.
ARENA Working Paper 16/2010 (pdf)
Cathrine Holst
This paper evaluates the mediatizing potential of the internet on the politics of European integration and the process of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) through an analysis of online debates during the 2009 EU elections.
ARENA Working Paper 06/2010 (pdf)
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz
In this paper, Erik O. Eriksen claims that the EEA Agreement to a large extent has made Norway a de facto EU member. Norway's democratic deficit will increase as the cooperation within the EU expands and the institutions are reformed.
ARENA Working Paper 21/2008 (pdf)
Erik. O. Eriksen
In this paper, the author adopts a pragmatist approach to the European transformation from an order of largely independent nation-states to an integrated order with some capacity to rule in the name of all.
ARENA Working Paper 07/2010 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
In this paper Cathrine Holst looks at the gender justice in the EU. The paper is a critical discussion of the normative assumptions in the EU gender justice index that is to be launched in the near future.
ARENA Working Paper 22/2008 (pdf)
Cathrine Holst
In this article Trenz argues that the tension between normative standards and legitimating practice should be considered as constitutive for the emergence of a European public sphere. Against recent attempts to define the European public sphere in purely descriptive terms, this implies the need to re-introduce the normativity of the public sphere as part of the dynamics of an evolving communicative space in Europe.
ARENA Working Paper 12/2008 (pdf)
Hans-Jörg Trenz
In this essay Fossum is discussing the politically divising issue in Norwegian politics- membership in the European Union. Through the EEA agreement Norway has become tightly incorporated in the EU, and this incorporation poses challenges to the Norwegian democracy. Fossum is treating this issue thorugh Holmes' notion of 'gag rules'.
ARENA Working Paper 04/2008 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum
In spite of relentless criticism over many years bureaucracies and bureaucrats are possibly experiencing a renaissance. The aim of this paper is to make sense of this puzzle by exploring bureaucracy as a specific way of organizing public administration in democratic societies. Through what processes and under what conditions is administrative organization likely to come close to the Weberian ideal type?
ARENA Working Paper 14/2007 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
This paper examines challenges and opportunities linked to democratisaton by constitutionalisation, drawing parrallels between the emerging European polity and experience from comparable entities such as Canada.
ARENA Working Paper 10/2006 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum
This paper is about the development of an overarching communicative space that functions as a public sphere in Europe.
ARENA Working Paper 03/2004 (pdf)
Erik O. Eriksen
The paper is on Robert Alexy’s legal theory and its putative blurring of the distinction between legalization and application.
ARENA Working Paper 07/2004 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
This paper discusses the usefulness of reflexive reason-giving as an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance. It is argued that deliberation must be supplemented with law and trust as resources for collective action.
ARENA Working Paper 20/2004 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
This paper is on whether the parameters of power politics in Europe are changing and whether the EU can be described as a cosmopolitan polity in the making. In other words: Is it the case that the popular sovereignty principe must yield to fundamental human rights?
ARENA Working Paper 09/2005 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
What lessons can be drawn from European integration when it comes to balancing unity and diversity?
ARENA Working Paper 24/2005 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
This essay reviews a recent volume on globalization, marketisation and the challenges these developments pose to democratic political theory and practice at the turn of the century.
ARENA Working Paper 23/1999 (html)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
