Webpages tagged with « neo-institutionalism»
This paper takes the contested concept of Europeanization, investigates its contrasting uses and maps out an institutional approach to European dynamics of change.
ARENA Working Paper 02/2002 (html)
Johan P. Olsen
From a distincly institutionalist perspective, this paper considers the prospects for pre-designed reform of the EU's institutions of governance.
ARENA Working Paper 07/2001 (html)
Johan P. Olsen
This paper evaluates the balance of power between member states and the Commission and observes that the former contrary to expectations enhanced their relative influence during the 1990s. On the basis of this observation, the paper gives a critique of neo-institutionalism and the multi-level governance perspective, which failed to predict member-state tenacity in this defining period.
ARENA Working Paper 06/2004 (pdf)
Hussein Kassim and Anand Menon
What is the relevance of bureaucratic organization to the studies of democratic governance today? With Max Weber as point of departure, this paper discusses the fruitfulness of bureaucracy to political analysis. With regards to empirics, furthermore, the paper argues that bureaucracy as method of governance is far more viable than the market and network paradigms suggest.
ARENA Working Paper 10/2005 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
This paper accounts for the logic of appropriateness, a perspective that sees human action as driven by rules of appropriate or exemplary behavior, embedded in institutions.
ARENA Working Paper 09/2004 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen and James G. March
In his Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture 2005, Johan P. Olsen explores how studies of political unification and differentiation in Europe may contribute to a better general understanding of the dynamics of territorial organization and the balancing of unity and diversity.
ARENA Working Paper 23/2005 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen
In this paper the question of how to reconcile political unity and diversity, a classic problem of democratic theory, is applied to the evolving European polity. Specific emphasis is put on the dynamic behind voluntary cross-border cooperation and the consequences of such integration to the viability and democratic quality of constituent institutions.
ARENA Working Paper 13/2004 (pdf)
Johan P. Olsen