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Espen Daniel Hagen Olsen

Espen Daniel Hagen Olsen

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: PI637
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 990 38 364
  • Office: +47 672 36 896
E-mail
  • espen.h.olsen@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Current position: Espen D.H. Olsen (PhD, EUI) is Professor of Political Science, School of Business, Faculty of Social Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University

I am a political scientist with an interest in public policy, political theory, citizenship, europeanization and the EU. I have published extensively on issues such as European citizenship, EU integration, European crises, citizen deliberation and Norwegian and European migration policy. In addition, I pursue more general interests in political theory as well as qualitative methods and process tracing. 

Currently I am pursuing projects on citizenship and public administration, differentiated citizenship in European politics, autonomy and wriggle-room in citizenship issues for deeply integrated non-members to the EU and the development of Norwegian citizenship politics in the 2000s.

Prospective PhD students can contact me related to topics such as citizenship politics and the public sector, rights issues and a digital public sector, citizenship theory and politics, free movement, migration and EU integration.

External webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/espen-dh-olsen/

Field of study

Migration   Public policy   Political theory   Intergration policy   Eurpean integration   Citizenship   Immigration Policy   Developing expertise

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Rosen, Guri ; Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Dannerhäll, Alexander Lars (2025). Sweden and the Limits of Euro-Optimism: Pragmatic Integration or Political Reluctance?. Gora, Magdalena; Thevenin, Elodie; Zielinska, Katarzyna (Ed.). Political Actors’ Narratives on the Reforms of the European Union. p. 118-134. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5340201

Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Rosen, Guri (2025). Norway as Europe's Closest Outsider: Views of European Integration from a Non-Member. Gora, Magdalena; Thevenin, Elodie; Zielinska, Katarzyna (Ed.). Political Actors’ Narratives on the Reforms of the European Union. p. 190-206. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5340199

Fossum, John Erik; Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Trondal, Jarle (2024). Norges forhold til EU: Hvorfor fokusere på autonomi?. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift. Vol. 40.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nst.40.1.2

Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Menéndez, Agustin José (2024). European Citizenship. Faist, Thomas; Cabeza, Marisol Garcia (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4924292

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2024). What is EU Citizenship for? European Integration, Society, and the Everyday. Stetter, Stephan; Glockzin, Elena (Ed.). Europe and the Everyday: Subjectivities, Identities and Contestations. p. 19-41. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45786-0_2

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2024). Differentiated Integration and Unequal Personal Statuses in the EU. Fossum, John Erik; Batora, Jozef (Ed.). Differentiation and Dominance in Europe's Polycrises. p. 184-203. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4339480

Fossum, John Erik; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Trondal, Jarle (2024). Innenfor, men utenfor. Handlingsrommets muligheter og begrensninger i EU-politikken. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). Vol. 41.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nnt.41.2.2

Trondal, Jarle; ,; Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie; , ; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg; Farstad, Fay Madeleine; Lord, Christopher James; Fossum, John Erik (2023). Flexible Association in Foreign, Security, and Defence Policy: A case of gradually diminishing autonomy?. Fossum, John Erik; Lord, Christopher James; Farstad, Fay Madeleine; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Olsen, Espen D. H. (Ed.). Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK: On Autonomy and Wriggle Room. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5231601

Fossum, John Erik; Lord, Christopher James; Farstad, Fay Madeleine; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Riddervold, Marianne; Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie; Svendsen, Øyvind; Trondal, Jarle (2023). Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK: On Autonomy and Wriggle Room. ISBN: 9781003246961. 246 p. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4033794

Riddervold, Marianne; Fossum, John Erik; Lord, Christopher James; Farstad, Fay Madeleine; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; , ; Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie; ,; Trondal, Jarle (2023). Autonomy and Wriggle Room. Fossum, John Erik; Lord, Christopher James; Farstad, Fay Madeleine; Farsund, Arild Aurvåg; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud; Olsen, Espen D. H. (Ed.). Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK: On Autonomy and Wriggle Room. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5074043



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Textbooks

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen ; Rosén, Guri ; Trondal, Jarle (2020). Hvordan virker EU? Institusjoner og politiske prosesser, 2. utgave. ISBN: 9788215042787. 230 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4024105

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen ; Trondal, Jarle; Rosen, Guri (2017). Hvordan virker EU? Institusjoner og politiske prosesser. ISBN: 9788215026343. 219 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3396679



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Research reports

Trenz, Hans-Jørg; Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2012). The Micro-Macro Link in Deliberative Polling: Deliberative Experiments and Democratic Legitimacy. ARENA Centre for European Research.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3569267

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen ; Trenz, Hans-Jörg (2011). From Citizens’ Deliberation to Popular Will-Formation? Generating Democratic Legitimacy in Transnational Deliberative Polling. Arena, Centre for European Studies.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5217431

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen ; Fiket, Irena; Trenz, Hans-Jörg (2011). Deliberation Under Conditions of Language Pluralism: Insights from the Europolis Deliberative Experiment. Arena, Centre for European Studies.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3548912

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2011). European Citizenship. With a nation-state, federal, or cosmopolitan twist?. Arena, Centre for European Studies.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3454226

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen ; Trenz, Hans-Jørg (2010). Deliberative Polling. A Cure to the Democratic Deficit of the EU?. 33 p. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4438779

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2008). Transnational European Citizenship: Tracing Conceptions of Citizenship in the European Integration Process. 263 p. European University Institute.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3926883

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2006). Work, Production, Free Movement and Then What? Conceptions of Citizenship in European Integration, 1951-71. 17 p. EUI Working Paper, Dept. of Political Sciences, European University Institute.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5064134

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2005). Mellom rettigheter, kultur og cosmopolis. En teoretisk og emprirsk analyse av europeisering og statsborgerskap. 121 p. ARENA Report 7/05.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3784338



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Dissemination

Staver, Anne Balke ; Olsen, Espen D. H. (2024). From Humane to Human Capital: Changing Currencies in the Temporal Governance of Naturalization in Norway. Council of European Studies Annual Conference. Council of European Studies.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4369559

Fossum, John Erik; Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Trondal, Jarle (2024). Innledning: Autonomi under kompleks gjensidig avhengighet. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift. Vol. 40.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nst.40.1.1

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2023). Who is the European Citizen: Communities of Membership and Scales of EU Citizenship. EUSA Biennial Conference 2023. European Union Studies Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4944117

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2023). What is EU citizenship for? European integration, society, and the everyday. European Politics and the Everyday: Subjectivities, Identities and Contestations. Bundeswehr Universität München.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5206980

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2023). Hvorfor snakke om statsborgerskap i 2023?. Hvorfor snakke om statsborgerskap i 2023?. Demopol-nettverket NOVA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4928506

Kvalnes, Pål Arne ; Olsen, Espen D. H. (2022). Flyktningkrisen vil prege Europa i årene som kommer.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3642022

Olsen, Espen D. H. ; Menéndez, Agustin José (2022). Thinking European Citizenship Anew: The Multilevel Register of European Personal Statuses. Comparative Multilevel Citizenship. Glendon College, University of Toronto.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3527214

Olsen, Espen D. H. (2021). Challenging European Citizenship: Some ideas for the future of citizenship in the EU. Reclaiming European Citizenship. ECIT Foundation.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4112206

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2020). Chapter presentation: What kind of Crisis and How to Deal With It?. Book Seminar: Towards a Segmented European Political Order. Webster University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4562113

Olsen, Espen Daniel Hagen (2020). Chapter presentation: What kind of Crisis and How to Deal With It?. Book Seminar: Towards a Segmented European Political Order. Comenius University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4348323



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