Første disputas i Offentlig administrasjon

Merethe Dotterud Leiren disputerer på Fakultet for økonomi og samfunnsvitenskaps doktorgradsprogram med spesialisering i offentlig administrasjon.  Doktorgradsspesialiseringen blir ledet av professor Jarle Trondal, som også er disputantens hovedveileder.

Les også artikkel i UiAs forskningsmagasin TEFT nummer 1/2012 - dobbeltside 11 i venstre spalte.

Why is liberalisation reform introduced in some areas but not in others?

The question is answered in four independent yet interconnected articles, forming the main structure behind this doctoral thesis.

Through detailed case studies and process-tracing, the thesis outlines four key contributions: it uses institutional perspectives to understand why a common policy becomes different in character across sectors; it identifies conditions under which liberalisation reform occurs at both the EU and local level; it contributes to clarifying the scope regarding the assumption that a constitutional bias towards negative integration explains the introduction of liberalisation policy in the EU; finally, it adds insight as to how trade unions, which are generally considered to be weak in EU liberalisation politics, may be influential at the EU level.

There is more focus towards sectors rather than the state, allowing greater focus on policy level variables and not, for example, on the institutional features of different national political systems.

The public service sector has been selected for analysis since differentiated integration remains largely under-researched.

Focus on infrastructures ensures that the selected cases – the Postal Directive, the Public Transport Regulation and the Port Directive – share certain similarities.

As several public services are sub-national responsibilities, this thesis also contributes to understanding the appeal of competitive tendering at the local level i.e. county level.

Kandidaten: Merethe Dotterud Leiren var ph.d-student ved UiA fra januar 2010 til februar 2013. Nå foreleser hun i kvalitative metoder ved UiA-EVU (etter- og videreutdanning).

Prøveforelesning og disputas finner sted i auditorium H1-058, Campus Kristiansand, UiA.

Dekan Sigbjørn Sødal leder disputasen.

Tid for prøveforelesning: 6. desember 2013 kl 10:15

Oppgitt emne for prøveforelesning:  "Differentiated integration: Explaining variation across European Union policies"

Tid for disputas: 6. desember 2013 kl 12:15

Tittel på avhandling: «Differentiated European Integration. Liberalisation of Post, Public Transport and Ports”

Les avhandlingen i AURA - Agder University Research Archive, som er et digitalt arkiv for vitenskapelige artikler, avhandlinger og masteroppgaver fra ansatte og studenter ved Universitetet i Agder.

Førsteopponent: Professor Hussein Kassim, University of East Anglia, UK

Annenopponent: Professor Mark Aspinwall, University of Edinburgh, UK

Bedømmelseskomitéen har vært ledet av førsteamanuensis Stefan Gänzle, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder

Veiledere i doktorgradsarbeidet var professor Jarle Trondal, UiA (hovedveileder) og professor Claudio Radaelli, University of Exeter (bi-veileder).