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Tore Vincents Olsen

Tore Vincents Olsen
Assistant professor , PhD
Tore Vincents Olsen

International Center for Business and Politics

Steen Blichers Vej 22
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
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E-mail: to.cbp@cbs.dk



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I have been working with the legitimacy problems of the European Union for a number of years. My dissertation (2006) combined a normative discussion about possible legitimacy basis of the European Union with an analysis the various points of view on the sources of the Union’s legitimacy as they were expressed in the Convention on the Future of Europe. In 2008 I have co-authored a book on the Europeanization of the political institutions in Denmark and Sweden. The book examines how the political institutions adapt themselves in order to be able to respond adequately both to the institutional exigencies of EU membership and the demand for democratic and constitutional legitimation of the national EU policy.
My current research concerns anti-discrimination policies and integration policies in Denmark and other European countries. The main focus is on the political integration of immigrant minorities in the national political life in Denmark, Sweden, Britain and France. The research is based on the general question of what it takes to be recognised as a legitimate interlocutor and participant in the political life in the respective countries. The research asks what the forms of recognition are that are available to immigrant minorities and to what extent they are required to rid themselves of their cultural and religious particularities in order to be included politically.

Primary research areas

  • European Union
  • Legitimacy
  • Democracy
  • Citizenship
  • Multiculturalism
  • Europeanization
  • New Institutional theory
  • Integration
  • Immigration


Selected publications

Publications
Academic publications
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2008/forthcoming) ‘EU og politisk teori’. I: L.B. Kaspersen & J. Loftager (eds) Klassisk og moderne politisk teori, Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
  • Olsen, Tore V. Olsen, Tore (2008/forthcoming) EU’s rettighedsregime mellem harmonisering og differentiering, Politik, Sept. 11:2.
  • Olsen, Tore V. & Pedersen, Ove K. (2008) Den Europæiske Skrue – Demokratisk Dynamik i Danmark og Sverige, Copenhagen: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag.
  • Olsen, Tore (2008) Discrimination and anti-discrimination in Denmark – Analysis of the legal challenges’. Report prepared for the project EMILIE (A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship - Legal Political and Educational Challenges), July 2008, 54 pages.
  • Olsen, Tore V. & Pedersen, Ove K. (2006) ’Regeringernes koordination af EU politikken og dens demokratiske forankring’ i Politik, 3:9.
  • Olsen, Tore V. & Mouritsen, Per (2006) Immigration in Denmark:Recent Developments and Future Challenges Report prepared for the project EMILIE (A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship - Legal Political and Educational Challenges).
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2004) ‘Forfatningstraktaten – En overlappende konsensus om EU?’, Politik, 7:1, pp. 35-46.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2004) ’Europe United under God? Or not?’.I: L. Dobson & A. Føllesdal (eds) Political Theory and the European Constitution, Routledge, London.
PhD-thesis
Olsen, Tore V. (2006) Union Philosophies - A study of different approaches to the European Union's public philosophy identified in the Convention on the Future of Europe, Dept. of Political Science, Copenhagen University.
Otherpublications
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2005) ’Europæisk fællesskab og forfatningstraktaten’ i Samfundsfagsnyt, nr. 159.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2002) ’Fællesskabets pris - og om behovet for nytænkning,’ Folkevirke, Temablad - nr. 3 / 2002
  • Olsen, Tore V. & Rostbøll, Christian F. (2002) ‘Integration: Regeringens store svigt’, Commentary in Politiken 23 February 2002.
Conference papers
  • Olsen, Tore (2008) The EU’s citizen rights regime between harmonisation and differentiation. Paper prepared for the ECPR Joint Sessions in Rennes 11 – 16 April 2008, Workshop 15 on ‘Contested Constitutionalisation: Towards a Theory of Democratic Constitutionalism’ directed by Professors Antje Wiener and Rainer Schmalz-Bruns.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2005) ‘The Union's diversity: Reasons and mechanisms for making differentiations within the Union's rights regime.’ Paper delivered to 3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, 8-10 September 2005.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2003) ’Unitary or diversified citizenship in the European Union - A political balancing of legal rights?’. Paper delivered to the conference on Constituting Communities: Political Solutions to Cultural Differences in Europe, Copenhagen, Vartov, October 23-25, 2003.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2003) An overlapping consensus on the legitimacy of the European Union? Paper for Dansk Selskab for Europaforskning: Årsmøde Aalborg Universitet, 27-28 september, 2003
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2003) The Convention and the EU as a Community of Law. Paper delivered to the ECPR Conference, University of Edinburgh, 28 March – 2 April 2003.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2002) ’EU-konventet: problemer og perspektiver - en kortlægning af euro-konstitutionalismer’. Paper til Dansk Selskab for Europaforsknings årsmøde den 16. september 2002.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2002) On Common Grounds - Pluralism and Integration. Paper presented at Nordic Summer University, March 2002, Oslo.
  • Olsen, Tore V. (2001) Om retlig pluralisme, retssikkerhed og staten som præmis. Paper presented at Nordic Summer University, August 2001, Gøteborg.


Last updated by Anje Schmidt 13/12/2009