Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity;

Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity;

But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity.

~St. Bernard of Clairvaux

 

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Studies on the European Polity

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Books

	The European Union, Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration. Third Edition, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003 [Read more about this book]
Norway and the European Community: The Political Economy of Integration. Praeger Publishers, 1993 [Read more about this book]
	The State Offshore, Petroleum, Politics, and State Intervention on the British and Norwegian Continental Shelves. Praeger Publishers, 1991 [Read more about this book]

Articles

"Religion and Youth Support for the European Union" with James L. Guth, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41(1)(March 2003): 89-112.

"Does Religion Matter? Christianity and Public Support for the European Union"
with James L. Guth and Cleveland R. Fraser, European Union Politics, 2(2)(Spring 2001): 191-217.

"Exploring the Gender Gap: Women, Men, and Public Attitudes toward European Integration" with James L. Guth, European Union Politics, 1(3)(Fall 2000): 267-91.

Conference Papers

"Does Religion Still Matter? Religious Cleavages and the Politics of Integration in Europe" Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 28-31 August 2008, Boston, MA

"Europe as a Christian Club: Religion and the Founding of the European Community, 1950-1975, The Ideological Dimension" Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1-4 September 2005, Washington, D.C.

"Religion and Attitudes toward the European Union: The New Member States" with James L. Guth, European Union Studies Association Ninth Biennial International Conference, Austin, Texas, 31 March-2 April 2005.

"The Reluctant Europeans: Protestantism, Nationalism and European Integration" with James L. Guth, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2-5 September 2004.

"Roman Catholicism and the Founding of Europe: How Catholics Shaped the European Communities" with James L. Guth, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28-31 August 2003.

"Religious Culture and European Integration: Theory and Hypotheses," with James L. Guth, Christians in Political Science Fourth National Conference, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5-7, 2003

(Book) Religion and the Struggle for Europe: Catholicism, Protestantism and Politics in the European Union to be published with James L. Guth by Georgetown University Press.