Åse Gornitzka
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4096358 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Åse Gornitzka |
| NOMBRES | Åse |
| APELLIDO | Gornitzka |
| FIRMA | GORNITZKA Å |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7509-4238 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 272 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
In the shadow of the EU’s crises
Players or Pawns? University Response to the Introduction of Plan S
The European Plan S initiative intending to transform the field of academic publishing towards open access has been received with both enthusiasm and criticism. This article reflects on this case as an example of how policymaking in ‘the Europe of Knowledge’ – characterized by increasing complexity caused by problems of multi-level coordination, combined with multi-actor divergence of norms, ideas, and interests − affects and triggers university …
Tracing scientisation in the EU Commission’s expert group system
This study traces the sweeping claim of a “scientisation” of EU governance, that is a growing authority of research-based knowledge within modern policymaking, by zooming in on the EU Commission’s expert group system, and its “high level groups” in particular. With new quantitative and qualitative data that cover the period between 2005 and 2017, the study assesses whether alleged scientisation pressures are translated into actual patterns of par…
Le recrutement au mérite favorise la bonne gouvernance
Les études montrent que les administrations publiques qui pratiquent le recrutement au mérite sont nettement moins touchées par la corruption que les autres. Les données sont nombreuses sur la situation des États membres de l’U.E. en ce qui concerne le degré de recrutement au mérite au sein de leurs administrations, ainsi que sur les résultats de l’administration de la Commission européenne à cet égard. En revanche, on en sait beaucoup moins sur …
Fri flyt av vitenskap? EØS-avtalens betydning for forskning i Norge
Gjennom EØS-avtalen ble det norske forskningssystemet koblet til en overnasjonal politikk preget av lagvis endring og ekspansjon. EUs økende engasjement i forskningspolitikken har resultert i et bredt sammensatt sett av forsknings- og innovasjonspolitiske virkemidler og en økende andel av EUs budsjett. Dette politikkområdet er båret av overnasjonale prinsipper for forskningsfinansiering og intense transnasjonale nettverk i sektoren. EØS-avtalen s…
Reputation Management in Public Agencies
Reputation management or branding is increasingly important for public organizations. Based on organization theory perspectives and reputation management theory, reputation profiles of four agencies—from the financial and education sectors—are compared. The data used were retrieved from the websites of the agencies at two points in time (2006 and 2016). The main results show not only that the performance dimension of the reputation profile is the…
Merit-based recruitment boosts good governance
Studies show that public administrations that practise merit-based recruitment of their personnel are significantly less marked by corruption than administrations that do not recruit in this manner. While we know a lot about how EU member states score with regard to the degree of merit-based recruitment within their administrations, and also how the European Commission administration performs in this respect, recruitment practices within the incr…
Organization theory
The argument outlined in this chapter is that organizational factors (independent variables) might intervene in governance processes (dependent variables) and create a systematic bias, thus making some process characteristics and outputs more likely than others. It is argued that applying organizational theory to governance may be useful in at least two respects. First, it may add new knowledge on how different governance architectures shape gove…
Reputation Management in Complex Environments—A Comparative Study of University Organizations
Societal Inclusion in Expert Venues
The elaborate system of expert groups that the European Commission organises is a key feature of EU everyday governance and also a potential channel of societal involvement in EU policy making. This article examines the patterns of participation in the expert group system of a broad set of societal actors—NGOs, social partners/unions, consumer organisations, and business/enterprise. The analysis is based on a large-N study of Commission expert gr…
The Expert-Executive Nexus in the EU
Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge in decision-making in and by EU executive institutions
Designed Diffusion? The Impact of an EU Instrument for Public Management Reform in the Western Balkans
In pursuit of the European Union’s (EU’s) agenda to promote public sector reform in countries beyond the member states, the EU has relied on softer instruments to induce domestic reforms through technical and financial support. The impact and durability of such measures are contested and the research findings are mixed. This article examines the Tempus program, a core neighborhood policy instrument the EU has used to promote public management ref…
A Note from the New Editors of Scandinavian Political Studies
The dynamics of European regulatory regimes in higher education — Challenged prerogatives and evolutionary change
European higher education has witnessed a substantial growth in regulatory arrangements in external quality assurance (EQA) during the last couple of decades. This current article describes the central characteristics and trajectories of this expansion, and discusses drivers of this development drawing on an institutional perspective. Empirically, three distinct, although overlapping, stages in the building up of a regulatory regime are identifie…
People Who Run the European Parliament
With few exceptions, parliament administrations, including secretariat officials and party group staff, have been relatively unexplored. However, a small, but growing, literature on the administration of the European Parliament (EP) indicates that officials play a role in the policy process that goes beyond technical and procedural questions. On this background, this article therefore aims at, first, finding out who the people working in the EP s…
A Not So Technocratic Executive? Everyday Interaction between the European Parliament and the Commission
The European Commission, although generally portrayed as a technocratic, non-majoritarian institution, or as an agent of EU member governments, has become increasingly linked to the European Parliament (EP) through a range of semi-parliamentary measures intended to increase the executive's legitimacy and accountability. In this article we argue that in addition to several highly visible and often treaty-based control instruments, an almost symbio…
Parliament staff
Officials within parliaments have received marginal scholarly attention. This also holds for the European Parliament (EP) which contains a considerable administration. This study, based on an online survey (N = 118), shows that political group staff are primarily committed to the concerns of their respective political groups, but also to the arguments of those external actors which have similar party affiliation. Since most group officials are, i…
The consumer attention deficit syndrome
Consumers' attention is a scarce resource. It is virtually impossible for a consumer to keep informed about all the markets he or she visits. This article describes a mechanism that is likely to evolve in sophisticated societies with multiple complex markets. Since the nature of consumer areas differs substantially and thus requires different kinds of consumer competences, such competences cannot be easily transferred from one consumer area to an…
Enlightened Decision Making
Décisions éclairées? Le rôle des scientifiques dans la gouvernance de l’UE Le rôle d’expertise technocratique et scientifique dans la gouvernance de l’UE est contesté. Cet article examine le degré de participation des scientifiques dans le processus décisionnel de l’UE et les conditions qui influent sur leur participation. L’étude utilise une base de données sur les groupes d’experts de la Commission européenne. Nous montrons que les scientifique…
Access of Experts
Who provides the European Union with information? This article examines patterns of participation in the large expert group system under the European Commission. It explores competing propositions about the character of the Commission's information system, and tests four hypotheses about what affects participation in the EU expert group system. The authors distinguish between three kinds of information providers: scientists, societal actors and g…
Internationalisation of higher education
The article discusses the impact of the growing emphasis on internationalisation on higher education institutions. Based on case studies of 12 Scandinavian universities and colleges, it is shown how issues related to internationalisation trigger processes of trying to enhance the institutional capacity for strategic decision‐making and institutional integration through processes of formalisation, centralisation and professionalisation. Based on t…
Who consults? The configuration of expert groups in the European union
This article examines and explains the committee system of the EU as a crucial property of the EU governance system using a database on the European Commission's experts groups. What is the extent of the expert consultative system? What is the distribution of expert groups? Are these groups best understood as loose networks or do they constitute a stable, well-established consultative system? We observe a proliferation of expert groups over time …
Bokanmeldelser
Hybrid steering approaches with respect to European higher education
The economy, higher education, and European integration
Who consults? The configuration of expert groups in the European union
This article examines and explains the committee system of the EU as a crucial property of the EU governance system using a database on the European Commission's experts groups. What is the extent of the expert consultative system? What is the distribution of expert groups? Are these groups best understood as loose networks or do they constitute a stable, well-established consultative system? We observe a proliferation of expert groups over time …
Access of Experts
Who provides the European Union with information? This article examines patterns of participation in the large expert group system under the European Commission. It explores competing propositions about the character of the Commission's information system, and tests four hypotheses about what affects participation in the EU expert group system. The authors distinguish between three kinds of information providers: scientists, societal actors and g…
Parliament staff
Officials within parliaments have received marginal scholarly attention. This also holds for the European Parliament (EP) which contains a considerable administration. This study, based on an online survey (N = 118), shows that political group staff are primarily committed to the concerns of their respective political groups, but also to the arguments of those external actors which have similar party affiliation. Since most group officials are, i…
A Not So Technocratic Executive? Everyday Interaction between the European Parliament and the Commission
The European Commission, although generally portrayed as a technocratic, non-majoritarian institution, or as an agent of EU member governments, has become increasingly linked to the European Parliament (EP) through a range of semi-parliamentary measures intended to increase the executive's legitimacy and accountability. In this article we argue that in addition to several highly visible and often treaty-based control instruments, an almost symbio…
Hybrid steering approaches with respect to European higher education
Reputation Management in Public Agencies
Reputation management or branding is increasingly important for public organizations. Based on organization theory perspectives and reputation management theory, reputation profiles of four agencies—from the financial and education sectors—are compared. The data used were retrieved from the websites of the agencies at two points in time (2006 and 2016). The main results show not only that the performance dimension of the reputation profile is the…
Reputation Management in Complex Environments—A Comparative Study of University Organizations
The Bureaucratisation of Universities
Societal Inclusion in Expert Venues
The elaborate system of expert groups that the European Commission organises is a key feature of EU everyday governance and also a potential channel of societal involvement in EU policy making. This article examines the patterns of participation in the expert group system of a broad set of societal actors—NGOs, social partners/unions, consumer organisations, and business/enterprise. The analysis is based on a large-N study of Commission expert gr…
People Who Run the European Parliament
With few exceptions, parliament administrations, including secretariat officials and party group staff, have been relatively unexplored. However, a small, but growing, literature on the administration of the European Parliament (EP) indicates that officials play a role in the policy process that goes beyond technical and procedural questions. On this background, this article therefore aims at, first, finding out who the people working in the EP s…
The Expert-Executive Nexus in the EU
Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge in decision-making in and by EU executive institutions
The dynamics of European regulatory regimes in higher education — Challenged prerogatives and evolutionary change
European higher education has witnessed a substantial growth in regulatory arrangements in external quality assurance (EQA) during the last couple of decades. This current article describes the central characteristics and trajectories of this expansion, and discusses drivers of this development drawing on an institutional perspective. Empirically, three distinct, although overlapping, stages in the building up of a regulatory regime are identifie…
Merit-based recruitment boosts good governance
Studies show that public administrations that practise merit-based recruitment of their personnel are significantly less marked by corruption than administrations that do not recruit in this manner. While we know a lot about how EU member states score with regard to the degree of merit-based recruitment within their administrations, and also how the European Commission administration performs in this respect, recruitment practices within the incr…
Designed Diffusion? The Impact of an EU Instrument for Public Management Reform in the Western Balkans
In pursuit of the European Union’s (EU’s) agenda to promote public sector reform in countries beyond the member states, the EU has relied on softer instruments to induce domestic reforms through technical and financial support. The impact and durability of such measures are contested and the research findings are mixed. This article examines the Tempus program, a core neighborhood policy instrument the EU has used to promote public management ref…
Internationalisation of higher education
The article discusses the impact of the growing emphasis on internationalisation on higher education institutions. Based on case studies of 12 Scandinavian universities and colleges, it is shown how issues related to internationalisation trigger processes of trying to enhance the institutional capacity for strategic decision‐making and institutional integration through processes of formalisation, centralisation and professionalisation. Based on t…
The consumer attention deficit syndrome
Consumers' attention is a scarce resource. It is virtually impossible for a consumer to keep informed about all the markets he or she visits. This article describes a mechanism that is likely to evolve in sophisticated societies with multiple complex markets. Since the nature of consumer areas differs substantially and thus requires different kinds of consumer competences, such competences cannot be easily transferred from one consumer area to an…
National policies concerning the economic role of higher education
Tracing scientisation in the EU Commission’s expert group system
This study traces the sweeping claim of a “scientisation” of EU governance, that is a growing authority of research-based knowledge within modern policymaking, by zooming in on the EU Commission’s expert group system, and its “high level groups” in particular. With new quantitative and qualitative data that cover the period between 2005 and 2017, the study assesses whether alleged scientisation pressures are translated into actual patterns of par…
The Bureaucratisation of Universities
Hybrid steering approaches with respect to European higher education
The economy, higher education, and European integration
National policies concerning the economic role of higher education
National policies concerning the economic role of higher education
The economy, higher education, and European integration
Hybrid steering approaches with respect to European higher education⋆
Bokanmeldelser
Internationalisation of higher education
The article discusses the impact of the growing emphasis on internationalisation on higher education institutions. Based on case studies of 12 Scandinavian universities and colleges, it is shown how issues related to internationalisation trigger processes of trying to enhance the institutional capacity for strategic decision‐making and institutional integration through processes of formalisation, centralisation and professionalisation. Based on t…
Who consults? The configuration of expert groups in the European union
This article examines and explains the committee system of the EU as a crucial property of the EU governance system using a database on the European Commission's experts groups. What is the extent of the expert consultative system? What is the distribution of expert groups? Are these groups best understood as loose networks or do they constitute a stable, well-established consultative system? We observe a proliferation of expert groups over time …
Enlightened Decision Making
Décisions éclairées? Le rôle des scientifiques dans la gouvernance de l’UE Le rôle d’expertise technocratique et scientifique dans la gouvernance de l’UE est contesté. Cet article examine le degré de participation des scientifiques dans le processus décisionnel de l’UE et les conditions qui influent sur leur participation. L’étude utilise une base de données sur les groupes d’experts de la Commission européenne. Nous montrons que les scientifique…
Access of Experts
Who provides the European Union with information? This article examines patterns of participation in the large expert group system under the European Commission. It explores competing propositions about the character of the Commission's information system, and tests four hypotheses about what affects participation in the EU expert group system. The authors distinguish between three kinds of information providers: scientists, societal actors and g…
The consumer attention deficit syndrome
Consumers' attention is a scarce resource. It is virtually impossible for a consumer to keep informed about all the markets he or she visits. This article describes a mechanism that is likely to evolve in sophisticated societies with multiple complex markets. Since the nature of consumer areas differs substantially and thus requires different kinds of consumer competences, such competences cannot be easily transferred from one consumer area to an…
A Not So Technocratic Executive? Everyday Interaction between the European Parliament and the Commission
The European Commission, although generally portrayed as a technocratic, non-majoritarian institution, or as an agent of EU member governments, has become increasingly linked to the European Parliament (EP) through a range of semi-parliamentary measures intended to increase the executive's legitimacy and accountability. In this article we argue that in addition to several highly visible and often treaty-based control instruments, an almost symbio…
Parliament staff
Officials within parliaments have received marginal scholarly attention. This also holds for the European Parliament (EP) which contains a considerable administration. This study, based on an online survey (N = 118), shows that political group staff are primarily committed to the concerns of their respective political groups, but also to the arguments of those external actors which have similar party affiliation. Since most group officials are, i…
The dynamics of European regulatory regimes in higher education — Challenged prerogatives and evolutionary change
European higher education has witnessed a substantial growth in regulatory arrangements in external quality assurance (EQA) during the last couple of decades. This current article describes the central characteristics and trajectories of this expansion, and discusses drivers of this development drawing on an institutional perspective. Empirically, three distinct, although overlapping, stages in the building up of a regulatory regime are identifie…
People Who Run the European Parliament
With few exceptions, parliament administrations, including secretariat officials and party group staff, have been relatively unexplored. However, a small, but growing, literature on the administration of the European Parliament (EP) indicates that officials play a role in the policy process that goes beyond technical and procedural questions. On this background, this article therefore aims at, first, finding out who the people working in the EP s…
Societal Inclusion in Expert Venues
The elaborate system of expert groups that the European Commission organises is a key feature of EU everyday governance and also a potential channel of societal involvement in EU policy making. This article examines the patterns of participation in the expert group system of a broad set of societal actors—NGOs, social partners/unions, consumer organisations, and business/enterprise. The analysis is based on a large-N study of Commission expert gr…
The Expert-Executive Nexus in the EU
Expertise has played a pivotal role in EU executives since the European Union (EU) was established, but its significance is arguably increasing and takes on new shapes. This issue explores the role and use of expert knowledge in decision-making in and by EU executive institutions
Designed Diffusion? The Impact of an EU Instrument for Public Management Reform in the Western Balkans
In pursuit of the European Union’s (EU’s) agenda to promote public sector reform in countries beyond the member states, the EU has relied on softer instruments to induce domestic reforms through technical and financial support. The impact and durability of such measures are contested and the research findings are mixed. This article examines the Tempus program, a core neighborhood policy instrument the EU has used to promote public management ref…
A Note from the New Editors of Scandinavian Political Studies
Organization theory
The argument outlined in this chapter is that organizational factors (independent variables) might intervene in governance processes (dependent variables) and create a systematic bias, thus making some process characteristics and outputs more likely than others. It is argued that applying organizational theory to governance may be useful in at least two respects. First, it may add new knowledge on how different governance architectures shape gove…
Reputation Management in Complex Environments—A Comparative Study of University Organizations
Merit-based recruitment boosts good governance
Studies show that public administrations that practise merit-based recruitment of their personnel are significantly less marked by corruption than administrations that do not recruit in this manner. While we know a lot about how EU member states score with regard to the degree of merit-based recruitment within their administrations, and also how the European Commission administration performs in this respect, recruitment practices within the incr…
Le recrutement au mérite favorise la bonne gouvernance
Les études montrent que les administrations publiques qui pratiquent le recrutement au mérite sont nettement moins touchées par la corruption que les autres. Les données sont nombreuses sur la situation des États membres de l’U.E. en ce qui concerne le degré de recrutement au mérite au sein de leurs administrations, ainsi que sur les résultats de l’administration de la Commission européenne à cet égard. En revanche, on en sait beaucoup moins sur …
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