Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.
Books
M. Egeberg (ed.) (2006): Multilevel Union Administration. The Transformation of Executive Politics in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan:
Egeberg, M. (2006a): ‘Europe’s Executive Branch of Government in the Melting Pot: an Overview’, (16 pp).
Egeberg, M. (2006b):’The Institutional Architecture of the EU and the Transformation of European Politics’, (14 pp).
Egeberg, M. (2006c): ‘Balancing Autonomy and Accountability: Enduring Tensions in the European Commission’s Development’, (20 pp).
Egeberg, M. (2006d): ‘The College of Commissioners: Executive Politics as Usual?’ (15 pp).
Egeberg, M., G. Schaefer and J. Trondal (2006): ‘EU Committee Governance between intergovernmental and Union Administration’, (20 pp).
Martens, M. (2006): ‘National Regulators between Union and Governments: a Study of the EU’s Environmental Policy Network IMPEL’, (19 pp).
St?le, ?. (2006): ‘Towards a Multilevel Union Administration? The Decentralization of EU Competition Policy’, (16 pp).
Ugland, T. and F. Veggeland (2006): ‘The European Commission and the Integration of Food Safety Policies across Levels’. (20 pp).
Hayes-Renshaw, F. and H. Wallace (2006): The Council of Ministers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 277 pp
To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus
Eising, R. (2007): ‘Interest Groups and the European Union’, in M. Cini (ed.): European Union Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (18 pp).
McNamara, K. (2001): 'Where do rules come from? The Creation of the European Central Bank', in A.S. Sweet, W. Sandholtz and N. Fligstein (eds), The Institutionalisation of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 155-170 (15 pp).
Niemann, A. and P.C. Schmitter (2010) ‘Neofunctionalism’, Ch. 3 in A. Wiener & Thomas Diez (eds), European Integration theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press (22 pp.)
Olsen, J.P. (2007): ‘A prelude to an institutional account’, in Olsen, J.P. (2007) Europe in Search of Political Order. An institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift, and the co-existence of orders., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 92-114 (22 pp).
Scully, R. (2010): “The European Parliament”, in M. Cini and N. Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics (3rd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press (13 pp).
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Aspinwall, M. and G. Schneider (2000): ‘Same Menu, Separate Tables: The Institutionalist Turn in Political Science and the Study of European Integration’, European Journal of Political Research 38: 1-36, (35 pp).
Blom-Hansen, J. and G.J. Brandsma (2009): ‘The EU Comitology System: Intergovernmental Bargaining and Deliberative Supranationalism?’ Journal of Common Market Studies 47: 719-740 (21 pp).
Goetz, K.H. and J-H Meyer-Sahling (2008): ‘The Europeanisation of National Political Systems: Parliaments and Executives’, Living Reviews in European Governance 3: 2, (26 pp).
Gornitzka, ?. and U. Sverdrup (2008): ‘Who Consults? The Configuration of Expert Groups in the European Union’, West European Politics 31: 725-750, (25 pp).
Joerges, C. and J. Neyer (1997): ‘Transforming Strategic Interaction into Deliberative Problem-Solving: European Comitology in the Foodstuffs Sector’, Journal of European Public Policy 4: 609-25, (16 pp).
Knill, C. (1998): ‘European Policies: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions’, Journal of Public Policy 18: 1-28 (27 pp).
Moravcsik, A. (1993): ‘Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach’, Journal of Common Market Studies 31(4): 473-523 (50 pp).
Olsen, J.P. (2002a) 'The many faces of Europeanization', Journal of Common Market Studies, 40(5): 921-952, (31 pp).
Olsen, J.P. (2002b) 'Reforming European Institutions of Governance', JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 40(4): 581-602 (21 pp).
Radaelli, C.M. (2008): ‘Europeanization, Policy Learning, and New Modes of Governance’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 10: 239-254 (16 pp).
Sverdrup, U. (2004): ‘Compliance and Conflict Management in the European Union: Nordic Exceptionalism’, Scandinavian Political Studies 27: 23-43, (20 pp).
Tallberg, J. (2010): ‘Explaining the Institutional Foundations of European Union Negotiations’, Journal of European Public Policy 17 (5): 633-647 (15 pp).
Treib, O. (2008): ‘Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs’, Living Reviews in European Governance, 3: 5, (30 pp).
Trondal, J., C. van den Berg and S. Suvarierol (2008): ‘The Compound Machinery of Government. The Case of Seconded Officials in the European Commission’, Governance 21: 253-274 (21 pp).
Total required reading: 870 pages
Extra non-compulsory Reading
This literature is not part of the required reading. The purpose of the recommended reading is to broaden and deepen the understanding of the subjects addressed in the course.
Bulmer, S. and C. Lequesne (eds.) (2005): The Member States of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
March, J.G. and J.P. Olsen (1989): Rediscovering Institutions. New York: The Free Press
Olsen, J.P. (2007): Europe in Search of Political Order. An institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift and the co-existence of orders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Page, E.C. (1997): People Who Run Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press
Trondal, J. (2010): An Emergent European Executive Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Wallace, H. and W. Wallace (eds.) (2010): Policy Making in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press