Åse Gornitzka and Ulf Sverdrup (2010): Enlightened Decision Making. The Role of Scientists in EU Governance

In this paper the authors examine empirically the degree of involvement of scientists in EU decision making. In addition they examine a set of conditions that affects the likelihood for scientists to be involved in EU decision making.

Å. Gornitzka, P. Maassen, J. P. Olsen, and B. Stensaker (2007): “Europe of Knowledge”: Search for a New Pact

How is the University as an institution affected by ongoing processes of European integration?

Åse Gornitzka (2007): Networking Administration in Areas of National Sensitivity - The Commission and European Higher Education

How should we account for the emerging networked-based administrative capacity at the EU level? This paper analyses developments in the higher education sector.

Johan P. Olsen & Peter Maassen (2006): European Debates on the Knowledge Institution:The Modernization of the University at the European Level

The European University, as a key institution, is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that urgent and radical reforms are needed.



Åse Gornitzka (2006): The Open Method of Coordination as practice - A watershed in European education policy?

To what extent does the Open Method of Coordination represent a watershed in education policy at the European level?



Anne Corbett (2006): Higher Education as a Form of European Integration: How Novel is the Bologna Process?

An analysis of policy process as applied to the development of higher education policy-making in the EU since 1955, and its relevance for the Bologna Process and EU Lisbon initiatives.



Åse Gornitzka & Johan P. Olsen (2006): Making sense of change in university governance

Changes in the University’s governance system, financial basis and organization signal that it is facing a transformative period.This paper proposes a perspective for understanding current changes in University governance as institutional collisions, where the University as a distinct institutional sphere is challenged by market and government.



Åse Gornitzka (2005): Coordinating policies for a "Europe of knowledge" - Emerging practices of the "Open Method of Coordination" in education and research

This paper presents the emerging practices of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in research and education policy at the EU-level and discusses the implications for the EU's involvement in these sectors as well as indicative lessons about the OMC as a mode of governance.



Johan P. Olsen (2005): The institutional dynamics of the (European) University

This paper aims to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of change in universities. A conceptual framework is developed to conceive of the contrasting role expectations filled by universities. Furthermore, institutional interaction and adaptation is exemplified by the ongoing process of Europeanization of higher education and research.