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Competency catalogue for researchers at ARENA
Morten Egeberg
Professor of Political Science – Research Director
Egeberg’s doctoral degree is from the University of Oslo. His research is directed towards the role of organisational factors in political systems; in particular he has looked upon how different ways of organising public administration affects both how it works and what decisions are taken. At ARENA Egeberg’s main focus is on the EU’s executive institutions and their interaction with national administration. In the period 2004-2008 he heads ARENA’s contribution as ‘Key Partner’ in the EU-financed CONNEX Network of Excellence.
Competence: the EU and reforms of national administration, the European Commission and the organisation of the EU, theories on European integration, the development of European administration policy.
- Tel. +47 22 84 48 53, email: morten.egeberg@ARENA.uio.no
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Johan P. Olsen
Professor in Political Science – Research Director
Olsen conducted his doctoral degree at the University of Bergen, where he was employed for 24 years. He has taken part in the scientific administration of ARENA since its foundation in 1994. Among a range of scholarly contributions, Olsen has adduced the “garbage can” perspective of decision-making processes in formal organizations and contributed to institutionalism as theoretical framework, focusing on rule-based behaviour and the autonomy of institutions. Olsen has conducted research periods at the University of California, Irvine and Stanford University. In addition to several international research awards, he holds honourable doctorates at the Academy of Åbo, University of Copenhagen and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Olsen has also held positions in numerous academic institutions, such as the research council of EUI in Florence.
Competence: the EU as institutional system, theories on European integration, the EU and national administration. At present, his focus is primarily on the politics and institutional development of research and education in Europe, including the interaction between different levels of governance in this sector.
- Tel. 22 85 76 78, email: j.p.olsen@ARENA.uio.no
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Professor in Political Science – senior researcher at ARENA.
Eriksen’s research at ARENA focuses on European integration and the preconditions for post-national democracy. Prior to his engagement by ARENA, he has been research director at the LOS centre in Bergen and professor at the Universities of Bergen and Tromsø. His research has focused on political governance, democracy and legitimacy and been related to organisation of the public sector, the welfare state, regional policy and professions. In addition to a comprehensive scholarly record, Eriksen has also coordinated several national and international research projects. From 2002 to 2005 he was scientifically responsible for the EU-financed project CIDEL (Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in Europe), and from 2006 he is heading the EU-financed integrated project Recon - Reconstituting democracy in Europe.
Competence: the EU in general, the EU as political system, democracy and legitimacy, deliberation, the EU’s Constitutional Treaty, theories on European integration, governance and the public sector, the welfare state, regional policy.
- Tel. 22 85 59 57, email: e.o.eriksen@ARENA.uio.no
Erik Oddvar Eriksen is on research leave in London (LSE) from February to June 2006.
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John Erik Fossum
Political Scientist – senior researcher with Professor competence at ARENA.
Fossum’s doctoral dissertation was conducted at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His research at ARENA looks upon the EU in constitutional and normative perspective. Questions related to democratic legitimacy and the EU’s constitutional process are recurring themes. Furthermore, Fossum has looked upon the EU from the point of federal theory and conducted comparative work of the EU and Canada. Finally, fundamental human rights at the supra-national level is a topic of particular concern for Fossum.
Competence: the EU in general, the EU, democracy and legitimacy, deliberation, the EU as polity, the EU and federalism, constitutional theory and the EU Constitutional Treaty, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Canada.
- Tel. 22 85 49 01, email: j.e.fossum@ARENA.uio.no
Helene Sjursen
Political Scientist – senior researcher at ARENA.
The EU as an international actor is a central topic to Sjursen, whose research pays particular attention to European security policy (including the development of a common foreign and security policy in the EU) and the politics of EU enlargement. Sjursen’s doctoral dissertation was conducted at the London School of Economics. From 1994 to -97 she was a lecturer at the Universities of Dublin and Glasgow.
Competence: the EU’s foreign and security policy, the EU in general, EU enlargement, the EU and France, Norway and the EU’s foreign and security policy, trans-Atlantic relations.
- Tel. 22 85 49 58, email: helene.sjursen@ARENA.uio.no
Helene Sjursen is on research leave in London (LSE) from February to June 2006.
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Hans-Jörg Trenz
Sociologist – senior researcher with Professor competence at ARENA.
Trenz’ academic background spans the Universities of Saarbrücken, Bari, Barcelona and London, in addition to EUI in Florence, where he conducted his doctoral degree. In 2005, Trenz completed his ‘Habilitationsverfahren’ at the Humboldt University in Berlin; the topic of his dissertation is communication of the EU and the representation of European integration in national mass media. Trenz has been employed by ARENA since January 2005.
Competence: European public sphere and civil society, identity and minority questions, political sociology.
- Tel. 22 85 80 82, e-mail: h.j.t@ARENA.uio.no
Åse Gornitzka
Political Scientist – senior researcher at ARENA.
Gornitzka’s doctoral dissertation was conducted at the University of Twente in Holland. Prior to her engagement by ARENA in 2004, she worked as senior researcher at NIFU STEP (Studies in Innovation, Research and Education) and the affiliated Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in Twente. Her work at ARENA follows up this field of research, with special emphasis on the integration of national systems of education in the framework of the EU. Her project is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
Competence: The EU and cooperation in research and education, the Lisbon strategy, Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as vehicle of innovation and integration.
- Tel. 22 85 53 30, email: ase.gornitzka@ARENA.uio.no
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Ulf Sverdrup
Political Scientist – senior researcher at ARENA.
Sverdrup has been employed by ARENA since 1995. His doctoral dissertation, dealing with the Europeanisation of national administrative systems, was conducted at the University of Oslo. In his research, Sverdrup looks upon national administration in the light of European integration, implementation of EU/EEA law and institutional dynamics in the EU. Sverdrup has also worked extensively on the EEA agreement and its implications for public administration in Norway.
Competence: The EU in general, the EU as political system, institutional development in Europe, the EEA agreement, the European Parliament, the EU and national parliaments, the EU and Switzerland, European statistics/Eurostat.
- Tel. 22 85 53 32, email: ulf.sverdrup@ARENA.uio.no
Ulf Sverdrup is on leave in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from January to June 2006.
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Daniel Gaus
Daniel Gaus
Researcher
E-mail: daniel.gaus(at)arena.uio.no
Phone: (+47) 22 85 82 28
Fax: (+47) 22 85 78 32
Daniel Gaus finished his PhD 'Der Eigensinn von Demokratie. Eine Analyse des Diskurses über die Legitimität der Europäischen Union aus der Perspektive der Diskurstheorie der Demokratie' in December 2006 at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Gaus has studied political science and philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. His main research interest lies in political theory with a focus on the relationship between the concepts of democracy, legitimacy and the state.
Cathrine Holst
Cathrine Holst
Researcher
Phone: +47 22 85 66 03
Fax: +47 22 85 78 32
E-mail: cathrine.holst(at)arena.uio.no
Cathrine Holst joined ARENA in 2007. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bergen (2005) with the thesis Feminism, Epistemology & Morality. Since 2005 she has been Associate Professor in Philosophy of Social Science at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (Senter for vitenskapsteori), University of Bergen. Holst has been employed as Research Assistant by the Centre for Women and Gender Research, University of Bergen, and by the research project ‘Power and Democracy’, University of Oslo/Bergen. She has been Editorial Assistant in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
Projects
Holst contributes to the work packages Theoretical Framework and Gender, Justice and Democracy of the 5-year long ARENA-led and EU Commission funded research project RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe, which has 19 partner universities across Europe.
Holst is partner in the research project Et kritisk blikk på norsk velferdsforskning, chaired by Associate Professor Bent Sofus Tranøy, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
Selected publications
“Gender Justice: Post-Rawlsian Perspectives”, RECON Online Working Paper (in progress)
“The Burdens of the Public Use of Reason. Comments on Cristina Lafont” (to be published).
Filosofihistorie (with Gunnar Skirbekk, Nils Gilje, Rasmus Slaattelid and Anne Granberg). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2007.
“Justifying Freedom of Expression” (with Anders Molander), in Discursive Modernity, Nils Gilje og Harald Grimen (eds). Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 2007.
Hva er feminisme? Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (in progress).
“Umulig, unødvendig, uriktig? Øyvind Østeruds kritikk av Jürgen Habermas’ euroføderalisme”, in Habermas på norsk, Gunnar C. Aakvaag og Odin Lysaker (eds). Oslo: Pax, 2007.
”Vitenskapens enhet?”, Sosiologisk tidsskrift (under assessment)
”Barometerfeminismens begrensninger”, Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2/2007.
”Statsfeminismen og nasjonalstaten”, Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 1/2007, 5-16.
”Det liberale dilemma?”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2/2006, 107-17.
”Sosiologi og diagnose”, Sosiologi i dag, 4/2006, 53-61.
Feminism, Epistemology & Morality. Dr.polit-thesis (PhD), Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Bergen, 2005.
“Gender and Situatedness. Towards a New Way of Constructing Knowledge?”, in Challenging Situatedness, Erica Engelstad (ed.). Delft: Eburon, 2005.
”Global solidaritet og rettferdighetssans”, Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning, 3/2005.
”Sosiologi, kritikk og politikk”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 3/2005, 327-34.
”Nancy Fraser i kritikkens landskap”, Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 4/2005, 56-67.
”Feminisme og humanisme”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 4/2005.
“Det kjønnsbalanserte samfunn”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2/2004, 212-16.
“Krig og rettferdighet. Å dø for staten. Kritisk perspektiv på rettferdig krig av Truls Wyller”, Agora, 3/2004.
”Om liberalismen. Svar til Truls Wyller”, Agora, 4/2004, 217-24.
“Kritikk og menneskesyn. Antropologi, samhällsteori och politik. Radikalkonservatism och kritisk teori. Gehlen-Schelsky-Habermas-Honneth-Joas (2002) av Carl-Göran Heidegren”, Sosiologisk tidsskrift, 2/2004, 218-28.
“Kjønnsmakt i likestillingslandet”, Kvinneforskning, 4/2003, 80-84.
“Feminisme og frihet”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 3/2003, 333-44.
“Pornologens bekjennelser”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 3/2003, 253-68.
“En politisk filosof. Intervju med Nancy Fraser”, Kvinneforskning, 3/2002, 71-5.
Kjønnsrettferdighet. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk (editor). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2002.
“Innledning”, in Kjønnsrettferdighet. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk, Cathrine Holst (ed.). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2002.
“Statsfeminismens moralske grammatikk”, in Kjønnsrettferdighet. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk, Cathrine Holst (ed.). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2002.
“Retten til privatliv. En feministisk presisering med et kritisk blikk på Ytringsfrihetskommisjonens rapport”, Kjønnsrettferdighet. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk, Cathrine Holst (ed.). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk, 2002.
Sosiologi, politikk og kvinnelighet. Norsk kvinne- og kjønnssosiologi etter 1970. Generasjoner, identiteter og diskurser, Cand.polit-thesis. Bergen: SVT Press, 2001.
Part time researchers
Agustín José Menéndez
Ph.D. in Law, adjoint researcher at ARENA.
Menéndez' doctorate was conducted at the European University Institute in Firenze. Presently, he is Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of León aside his affiliation to ARENA. Menéndez has published extensively within the framework of CIDEL, with particular emphasis on questions of jurisdiction, tax, fundamental rights and legitimacy.
Competence: the EU in general, the EU and European tax, the relationship between national and EU law, democracy and legitimacy, deliberation, the EU Constitutional Treaty, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU’s social dimension.
- email: a.j.menendez@ARENA.uio.no
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Jarle Trondal
Jarle Trondal
Adjoint Researcher
Phone: +47 38 14 15 61
Email: jarle.trondal@hia.no
Fax: +47 38 14 10 29/+47 22 85 78 32
Trondal has a doctoral degree from University of Oslo, ARENA (2001). This thesis dealt with the administrative integration of EU institutions and domestic public administration through EU committees. He is currently Professor in public administration and director of Centre for European Studies at Agder University College aside his affiliation to ARENA. Trondal participate in CONNEX with a particular emphasis on studying the European Commission and subordinated EU-level agencies. He co-ordinates the research project "DISC: Dynamics of International Executive Institutions".
Competence
The EU in general, the EU as a political system, administrative integration and transformation, the EU/EEA and Norway, the European Commission, EU committee governance.
Previous Positions
1996-2001: Research Fellow at ARENA, University of Oslo
2001-2002: Senior Researcher, NIFU-STEP, Oslo
2002-2006: Associate Professor, Agder University College, department of political science and management
2006-present: Professor, Agder University College, department of political science and management
Selected Publications
Trondal, J and F. Veggeland (2003) ‘Access, Voice and Loyalty. The Representation of Domestic Civil Servants in EU Committees’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1: 59-77.
Egeberg, M., G.F. Schaefer and J. Trondal (2003) ‘The Many Faces of EU Committee Governance', West European Politics, Vol. 26, No. 3: 19-40.
Beyers, J. and J. Trondal (2004) ‘How Nation-States ‘hit’ Europe. Ambiguity and Representation in the European Union’, West European Politics, Vol. 27, No. 4: 919-942 and European Integration online Papers (EioP), Vol. 7, No. 5, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2003-005a.htm. Received the Vincent Wright Award 2005.
Trondal, J. (2004) ‘Re-socializing Civil Servants. The Transformative Powers of EU Institutions’, Acta Politica. International Journal of Political Science, Vol. 39, No. 1: 4-30.
Trondal, J. (2005) ‘Two Worlds of Europeanisation – Unpacking Models of Government Innovation and Transgovernmental Imitation’, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 9, No. 1, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2005-001a.htm
Trondal, J., M. Marcussen and F. Veggeland (2005) ‘Re-discovering International Executive Institutions’, Comparative European Politics, Vol. 3, No. 2: 232-258.
Smeby, J.-C. and J. Trondal (2005) ‘Globalisation or Europeanisation? International Contact among University Staff’, Higher Education, Vol. 49, No. 4: 449-466.
Larsson, T. and J. Trondal (2005) ‘After Hierarchy? Domestic Executive Governance and the Differentiated Impact of the European Commission and the Council of Ministers’, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 9, No. 14, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2005-014a.htm
Trondal, J. (2006) ‘Governing at the Frontier of the European Commission. The case of seconded national experts’, West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 1: 147-160.
Trondal, J. (2006) ‘An Institutional Perspective on Representation. Ambiguous Representation within the European Commission’, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 10, No. 4, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2006-004a.htm
Trondal, J. (2006) ‘EU Committee Governance and the Multilevel Community Administration’, in H.C.H. Hofman and A. Tuerk (eds.) EU Administrative Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Larsson, T. and J. Trondal (2006) ‘Agenda Setting in the European Commission. How the European Commission structures and influences the EU Agenda’, in H.C.H. Hofman and A. Tuerk (eds.) EU Administrative Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Trondal, J. (2007) ‘Contending Decision-making Dynamics within the European Commission’, Comparative European Politics’, (forthcoming).
PhD fellows
Pieter de Wilde
Pieter de Wilde
Pieter de Wilde is a PhD fellow at ARENA
PhD Fellow
Phone: +47 22 85 76 79
Fax: +47 22 85 78 32
E-mail: p.d.wilde@arena.uio.no
Pieter de Wilde is PhD Fellow at ARENA since september 2006. His research is financed by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo.
Project:
Pieter's research focuses on the role of national parliaments in European integration in light of increasing politicisation of this process in terms of issue saliency, media coverage and public opinion.
Research interests include: European integration theory, Political Parties and Party systems in Europe and Comparative Politics
Publications
(2007)'Wie Controleert Europese integratie? Gevaren en mogelijkheden van politisering', in M. Segers, N. de Deugd en P. de Wilde (et al) De Toekomst van de Europese integratie in Negen Essays, Den Haag: Clingendael, pp. 31-42
Jonathan P. Aus
Research focus: The supranational regulation of justice and home affairs in Europe, case studies of decision-making processes and parliamentary adaptation to the EU. The project is financed by the University of Oslo.
Competence: Free movement of persons, Schengen and external border control, Community asylum and migration policy, EU police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
- Tel. 22 85 56 56, email: j.p.aus@ARENA.uio.no
Maria Martens
Research focus: The emergence of a networked-administrative system in the EU. The project is financed by the University of Oslo.
Competence: The development of European administration policy, EU agencies, administrative networks and implementation.
- Tel. 22 85 84 47, email: maria.martens@ARENA.uio.no
Maria Martens is absent in maternity leave from 16 January 2006.
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Marianne Riddervold
Research focus: The EU as an international actor in the dynamic between strategic interest and human rights. The project is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.
What characterises the EU as international actor? Riddervold's PhD project investigates the question of whether and how the EU differs from nation-states as an actor on the international scene. Empirically, the project draws on analyses of policy coordination in ILO/UN and EU positions on humanitarian intervention.
Competence: the common foreign and security policy of the EU, the EU as international actor.
- Tel. 22 85 66 03, email: marianne.riddervold@ARENA.uio.no
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Anne Elizabeth Stie
Research focus: The EU and preconditions for democracy. The project is financed by the EU’s framework programmes for research.
It is often argued that the EU suffers from a democratic deficit. Stie's PhD project investigates this claim by evaluating one of the EU's most widely used decision-making procedures - the co-decision procedure - for its democratic qualities and weaknesses.
Competence: Democracy and the EU, legitimacy and suprantionality, democratic qualities and weaknesses of the co-decision procedure, deliberation and discourse theory.
- Tel. 22 85 52 89, email: a.e.stie@ARENA.uio.no