News
30.08.2010
The Evolution of a European agency
How does an agency balance between being a professional information provider as well as an institutional watchdog? A study of the European Environment Agency shows that it has gradually developed its own mission, role and identity beyond the original legal framework. Through trust building and learning it has proved an important role in the Commission's work on environment.
20.08.2010
The European Commission more multinational than before
The staff of the so-called cabinets of the European Commission are more multinational than before. This may lead to decisions less influenced by each commmissioner's national background, Morten Egeberg and Andreas Heskestad write in a recent article in Journal of Common Market Studies. This goes against the standard portrayal that commissioners have only employed advisors form their home country in these cabinet groups and that they have been used as a tool for member state interest in the supposedly supranational Commisson.
20.08.2010
ARENA in the media
- Sveits i EU-klemme (Helene Sjursen, Morgenbladet 27.08.10).
- Den hemmelige staten (Christer Gulbrandsen, Morgenbladet 20.08.10)
- Å være intellektuell (Cathrine Holst, Aftenposten 09.08.10)
- EU i det blå (for UiO-brukere) (Helene Sjursen, Morgenbladet 06.08.10)
- Fastlåste fronter før forhandlingene (Erik Oddvar Eriksen, Nationen 03.08.10)
26.07.2010
Research assistant positions available
18.06.2010
The EU seen as supranational
03.06.2010
The lost EU debate
07.04.2010
New article in Res Publica
12.03.2010
Transnational bureaucrats
01.03.2010
New edition: European Union Politics
Working Papers
WP 06/2010
2009 European Parliamentary Elections on the Web. A mediatization perspective
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz
WP 05/2010
Enlightened Decision Making. The Role of Scientists in EU Governance
Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup
Seminars
14.09.2010
Competitive Representative Claims-making: Party Politicians and Institutional Factors in the Case of EU Budget Negotiations
Pieter de Wilde, ARENA - Centre for European Studies
21.09.2010
On Bureaucratic Centre Formation and Sub-Unit Autonomy. Lessons from the European Commission
Jarle Trondal, ARENA - Centre for European Studies/University of Agder
30.09.2010
Democracy and Global Governance Institutions: The Problem of Political Form
Jean L. Cohen, Nell and M. Herbert Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University, New York
Thursday 30 September (10:15 - 12:00) Room 2, Georg Sverdrups hus Map
Co-hosted by the Research Programme on Democracy (Democracy as Idea and Practice)