This paper analyses the EMU debate in Sweden, drawing on a governmental report mandated to sketch out pros and cons of Swedish membership. Interestingly, the resulting report points towards a new equilibrium between Keynesian and monetarist approaches - an observation carrying wider implications for Europe as well.
ARENA Working Paper 11/1997 (html)
Ton Notermans
ARENA Working Paper 12/1997 (No full text version available)
Johan P. Olsen, Ulf Sverdrup and Frode Veggeland
This paper accounts for the dynamics of the EU's Common Commercial Policy (CCP). With the Commission acting as agent in international trading regimes, it is clear that intergovernmentalism does not fully capture its role. In this paper we are presented with a refined version of Putnam's two level bargaining to better conceive of CCP processes.
ARENA Working Paper 13/1997 (html)
Finn Ola Jølstad
What are the epistemological links between culture and law? This paper aims to retrace their relation, based on the weberian argument that modernity and rationalization have removed jurisdiction from its basic, cultural justification.
ARENA Working Paper 14/1997 (html)
J. Peter Burgess
ARENA Working Paper 15/1997 (No full text version available)
Johan P. Olsen
ARENA Working Paper 16/1997 (No full text version available)
Lise Rye
In light of the burgeoning common currency of the EU, this paper takes a historical sweep to look at the quintessential relationship between nation-state and money, arguably an under-studied object of political history.
ARENA Working Paper 17/1997 (html)
Eric Helleiner
What becomes the fate of fundamental politico-legal principles as differentiation and multi-level political systems emerge? This paper captures the grandes lignes of the present development in Europe, where various forces go to counteract what has traditionally been a set of unitary legal systems.
ARENA Working Paper 18/1997 (html)
Inger-Johanne Sand
This paper accounts for post-1990 developments in the relationship between Germany and Poland. In particular, it questions whther a sort of regional partnership may be developing across the historically contested border.
ARENA Working Paper 19/1997 (html)
Jorunn Sem Fure
ARENA Working Paper 20/1997 (No full text version available)
Johan P. Olsen og Bjørn Otto Sverdrup
What are the organisational logics underpinning relations between the national level and the EU? This paper illuminates EU-nation-state dynamics by contrasting the EEA affiliation of Norway to full-fledged membership membership. Where the latter is characterised by equilibrium between sectoral and territorial concerns (Commission vs. Council), the Norwegian case is somewhat different.
ARENA Working Paper 21/1997 (html)
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
ARENA Working Paper 22/1997 (No full text version available)
Günther Teubner
ARENA Working Paper 23/1997 (No full text version available)
Heidi Storeheier
ARENA Working Paper 24/1997 (No full text version available)
Lars Mjøset
Going against the grain of evermore fragmented theories of EU development, this paper makes the case for new institutionalism as an overarching theory, drawing on empirical studies of EU governance of the single market.
ARENA Working Paper 25/1997 (html)
Simon J. Bulmer
This paper accounts for constitutional design in a historical perspective, bringing to light the limited practical merits of a range of political thinkers. Nevertheless, it is argued, political theorists have a lot to offer constitutional debates, particularly so to counteract judicial and comparative overweight with fresh ideas.
ARENA Working Paper 26/1997 (html)
Robert Goodin
What is the rationale underpinning united Germany's relations to its neighbours, and how may German power be conceptualised? This paper reviews a contribution of Katzenstein on the subject, adding some intriguing institutional observations of Germany soft-power, multilateral approach.
ARENA Working Paper 27/1997 (html)
Bjørn Otto Sverdrup
ARENA Working Paper 28/1997 (No full text version available)
Jarle Trondal
This paper discusses the transformation of hitherto nationally defined spaces of law and politics. In the study of evolving system of multilevel governance, it is argued, new inroads must be found - focusing more on communicative aspects than ancient categories of jurisdiction.
ARENA Working Paper 29/1997 (html)
Inger Johanne Sand
ARENA Working Paper 30/1997 (No full text version available)
Johan P. Olsen
This paper couples the concept of Europeanization with institutional theory, applying it on the two non-member states Switzerland and Norway. It is revealed that domestic institutional logics rather than formal membership is conducive to processes of adaptation.
ARENA Working Paper 31/1997 (html)
Ulf Sverdrup and Stephan Kux