The much-used textbook European Union Politics, edited by Michelle Cini and Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, has now been published in its third edition.
Professor Morten Egeberg at ARENA has contributed the article on The European Commission.
ARENA's guest researcher Rafal Riedel has co-edited the book Europeanization – mechanisms, dimensions, effects (Europeizacja: Mechanizmy, wymiary, efekty), published by the Adam Marszalek publishing house.
Our government agencies are becoming increasingly independent. They use their freedom to create closer ties with The European Union and sister organisations in other nation states, concludes Maria Martens PhD dissertation.
Read the article (In Norwegian)
Ben Crum (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and ARENA's John Erik Fossum has published the article "Het 'Meerlaags Parlementair Veld' in de Europese Unie: naar een reconstructie van parlementaire soevereiniteit in meerlaags bestuur" in the Belgian journal Res Publica. The article is based on their previous collaboration "The Multilevel Parliamentary Field: A Framework for Theorizing Representative Democracy in the EU", published in the European Political Science Review 1,2 (2009).
Jarle Trondal with Martin Marcussen, Torbjørn Larsson and Frode Veggeland has published the book "Unpacking International Organisations: The Dynamics of Compound Bureaucracies" with Manchester University Press. The book introduces international bureaucracy as a key field of study for public administration and also rediscovers it as an essential ingredient in the study of international organizations.
ARENA's Morten Egeberg has been invited to contribute to a special issue on European public administration in the Revue française d'administration publique that is published by l'École nationale d'administration. The English title of the French article is "EU Administration: Centre Formation and Multilevelness".
In a new article in Journal of European Public Policy, Marianne Riddervold argues that protection of human rights, rather than economic gains, has been a key motivation for EU in establishing high standards in international shipping.
Johan P. Olsen has published the book "Governing Through Institution Building Institutional Theory and Recent European Experiments in Democratic Organization" with Oxford University Press.
