ROLAND ERNE
Roland Erne is
a Swiss political scientist (Dipl. Pol.: Free University
Berlin/Sciences
Po Paris; PhD: European University Institute Florence) and
College Lecturer
of industrial relations at University College Dublin. His
teaching and
research interests include direct and transnational democracy,
the European
Union, globalisation and the emerging trends in work and
employment.
He is also co-editor of "Transnationale Demokratie. Impulse für
ein demokratisch
verfasstes Europa" (Zürich 1995), a fellow of the
Initiative and
Referendum Institute Europe http://www.iri-europe.org/ and
the author of
several articles on direct and European democracy as well as
comparative
industrial relations, including:
- 2004 'Italy'
in: B. Kaufmann and M. D. Walters. Eds. Direct Democracy in
Europe, Durham:
Carolina Academic Press, 73-77.
http://www.iri-europe.org/documents/almanac_content.pdf
- 2003 'Organised
Labor - A Euro-democratic Social Actor within the
(Technocratic)
European Competition Policy?' 13th World Congress of the
International
Industrial Relations Association, Berlin, 11.09.
http://www.fu-berlin.de/iira2003/papers/track_5/Workshop_5_4_Erne.pdf
- 2002 'Explaining
transnational collective action. European trade-union
cooperation
in the ABB-Alstom-Power merger case', ECPR Joint Sessions,
Turin, 22-27.03.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/turin/ws11/erne.pdf
- (2002) 'Plebiszit,
Referendum und Volksbegehren. Drei Typen direkter
Demokratie im
europäischen Vergleich' in: Schiller T., Mittendorf (eds.)
Perspektiven
der direkten Demokratie, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag pp.
77-87.