This paper discusses the marketisation of political citizenship towards client or customer roles. It is argued that while this is a logical effect of an increasingly complex public agenda, it also poses dangers for a conception of politics as endeavours for the collective good.
ARENA Working Paper 26/1999 (html)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen and Jarle Weigård
This paper evaluates the processes and interests involved in the development of a more legitimate EU.
ARENA Working Paper 27/1999 (html)
Beate Kohler-Koch
ARENA Working Paper 28/1999 (No full text version available)
Frode Veggeland
ARENA Working Paper 29/1999 (No full text version available)
James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille
ARENA Working Paper 30/1999 (No full text version available)
Simon Butler and Martin Burch
What lines could be drawn between constructivism and institutionalism with regards to subject matter and theoretical assumptions? This paper presents an unusual synthesis; empirics are drawn from national officials in EU committees, with focus on role conceptions and decision-making behaviour.
ARENA Working Paper 31/1999 (html)
Jarle Trondal
This paper investigates the dynamics of national officials involved in EU committee work. Drawing on organizational theory it is argued that the co-ordinative role of foreign ministries depends crucially on the framing of interaction in Brussels.
ARENA Working Paper 32/1999 (html)
Jarle Trondal
This essay discusses the concept of theory as it has been applied in social sciences; it arrives at a classification of four different uses of the word.
ARENA Working Paper 33/1999 (html)
Lars Mjøset
This paper accounts for changes of the late 1990s in the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Discussing whether changes towards supranationalism could be stable and consistent, it is argued that traditional foreign policy perspectives must be supplemented to account for new dynamics.
ARENA Working Paper 34/1999 (html)
Helene Sjursen
This paper attempts to conceptualize the role of the state in a post-national world by applying a relational understanding of sovereignty and authority.
ARENA Working Paper 35/1999 (html)
Michael Zürn