När de blir vi: institutioner, governance och förändring i Öresundskomiteen
(2007)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In January 2007 the Öresund committy changed its statutes to become a more politically oriented lobby organization. This change can be interpreted as one part of a continuously evolving process where the Öresund region is emancipating itself from the national states in a multi-level European environment. By focusing on this latest development the thesis puts forward the importance of political institutions, as well as politicians and civil servants as actors in them, as crucial factors in the process where the region is gaining political power. The thesis shows how the political cross-border cooperation in the Öresund region is being institutionalized which affects its power relations to other levels in the multi-level system,... (More)
- In January 2007 the Öresund committy changed its statutes to become a more politically oriented lobby organization. This change can be interpreted as one part of a continuously evolving process where the Öresund region is emancipating itself from the national states in a multi-level European environment. By focusing on this latest development the thesis puts forward the importance of political institutions, as well as politicians and civil servants as actors in them, as crucial factors in the process where the region is gaining political power. The thesis shows how the political cross-border cooperation in the Öresund region is being institutionalized which affects its power relations to other levels in the multi-level system, predominantly the national states. In other words, there is a connection between power and institutionalization.
The Öresund committee has by gaining better access to policymaking agendas on the national levels proven that the organizational change has already started to bear fruit. By institutionalizing the regional cross-border co-operation between Denmark and Sweden the Öresund committee is also gaining structural political power (Less)
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- author
- Plathner, Guillaume
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- institutions, governance, power, transformation, Öresund committy, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1324886
- date added to LUP
- 2007-09-05 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2007-09-05 00:00:00
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abstract = {{In January 2007 the Öresund committy changed its statutes to become a more politically oriented lobby organization. This change can be interpreted as one part of a continuously evolving process where the Öresund region is emancipating itself from the national states in a multi-level European environment. By focusing on this latest development the thesis puts forward the importance of political institutions, as well as politicians and civil servants as actors in them, as crucial factors in the process where the region is gaining political power. The thesis shows how the political cross-border cooperation in the Öresund region is being institutionalized which affects its power relations to other levels in the multi-level system, predominantly the national states. In other words, there is a connection between power and institutionalization.
The Öresund committee has by gaining better access to policymaking agendas on the national levels proven that the organizational change has already started to bear fruit. By institutionalizing the regional cross-border co-operation between Denmark and Sweden the Öresund committee is also gaining structural political power}},
author = {{Plathner, Guillaume}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{När de blir vi: institutioner, governance och förändring i Öresundskomiteen}},
year = {{2007}},
}