Bottom‐up or top‐down: what drives the convergence of Ukraine’s institutions towards European standards?

Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer

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“…However, in terms of political and economic preferences, influential business actors in Ukraine are far from being monolithic. While some might fear that growing alignment with the EU will affect them negatively, other branches can be regarded as 'bottom-up' forces of Europeanisation (Melnykovska & Schweickert 2008). Indeed, as Ukraine shares intensive economic ties with the EU, the planned adoption of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) generates considerable profit opportunities for business elites interested in exporting to EU markets (Langbein 2010a).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Adding to this, Ukrainian business actors can hope that convergence with EU norms can ADOPTION OF EU ENVIRONMENTAL NORMS IN UKRAINE 615 raise the credibility and certainty of domestic reforms due to improved governance structures. Depending on export structure and the expected benefits from access to EU markets, increased regulatory harmonisation can become an important trigger for business actors to embrace convergence with EU norms (Melnykovska & Schweickert 2008). On the other hand, the costs of non-convergence with EU norms can also be high as EU market access can be restricted for products not complying with EU standards.…”

Section: Domestic Veto Playersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, in addition to state actors, non-state actors, in both business and civil society, are actively involved in supporting or opposing alignment with external rules as this might provide them with economic benefits or influence over policy outputs (Melnykovska & Schweickert 2008). Strengthening the influence of environmental NGOs was an important policy tool used by the Commission to reinforce the adoption of the acquis in the accession states (Börzel & Buzogány 2010), and it can be seen at work also in the case of countries such as Ukraine (Stewart 2009;Wetzel 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergenceá la Carte

Buzogány¹

2013

Europe-Asia Studies

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Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergenceá la Carte

Buzogány¹

2013

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…In this perspective, it has been widely stressed that the Correspondence Address: Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira and Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar,Portugal. Indeed, this subject has been receiving little attention by the academics (Zarembo, 2011), something which contrasts with the abundance of studies dedicated to the assessment of Ukraine's 'Europeanization'/implementation of the ENP (Shumylo, 2006;Bürger, 2008;Melnykovska & Schweickert, 2008;Lange & Wolczuk, 2012;Buzogány, 2009). uminho.pt;vysotskayaa@gmail.com case of Ukraine represents a case of 'declarative' or 'shallow' Europeanization (Wolczuk, 2007;Solonenko, 2006Solonenko, , 2008.…”

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Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy: A Case of Institutionalized Ambiguity

Ferreira‐Pereira

Vieira

2014

European Politics and Society

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The relations between the European Union (EU) and Ukraine have been predominantly explained in the light of the European Neighbourhood Policy that ascribes a central role to political conditionality. This analytical approach, however, overlooks the fact that since the 1990s, the EU has been developing a partnership policy that needs to be taken into consideration. This partnership policy was enshrined in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and the EU Common Strategy towards Ukraine in 1999, and with the advent of the twenty-first century came to incorporate differentiated elements, notably the growing politico-diplomatic alignment within the realm of Common Foreign and Security Policy and a tangible participation in Common Security and Defence Policy missions. While these features have ascribed the country a distinctive status, neither of the parties has hitherto engaged in formalizing a strategic partnership. Against this backdrop, this article attempts to explain this somewhat paradoxical situation by teasing out and discussing the evolution of the cooperation between the EU and Ukraine which is informed by a complex institutional and legal design. It argues that two decades of bilateral relationship have engendered an ambiguous partnership, given the necessity felt by the EU to give the upper hand to an intergovernmentally driven 'Russia-first policy', while accommodating Kiev's ambitions to become a EU full-fledged member.

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“…Among the ENC-East group, Ukraine is the "new star" in attracting investments (PriceWaterHouseCoupers, 2006) and represents the leading target country for cross-border M&As. Moreover, Ukraine, bordering both the EU and Russia, is characterized by a strong willingness to cooperate although with an asymmetric interdependence with respect to the EU (Melnykovska and Schweickert, 2008). Among the ENC-South group, Israel is the main target country in terms of the number of M&As.…”

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The Concurrent Impact of Cultural, Political, and Spatial Distances on International Mergers and Acquisitions

2013

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The paper explores the concurrent effects of cultural, political, and spatial distances on M&A flows occurring between any two countries belonging to the whole European Union (27 States) or to the European Neighbors group (16 States) over the period 2000-2011. By employing zero-inflated negative binomial specifications, entailing both a binary and count process, we adequately model the two different mechanisms which may generate zero observations in the cross-border bilateral deals. Zeros may be due to either the lack of any transactions or unsuccessful negotiations. We find robust evidence that the multi-dimensional distance between two countries negatively affects the probability that they will engage in M&A deals, while the recurrence rate of these deals is positively related to population, gross domestic product, and technological capital and negatively related to geographical distance.

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Bottom‐up or top‐down: what drives the convergence of Ukraine’s institutions towards European standards?

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergenceá la Carte

Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergenceá la Carte

Ukraine in the European Union's Partnership Policy: A Case of Institutionalized Ambiguity

The Concurrent Impact of Cultural, Political, and Spatial Distances on International Mergers and Acquisitions

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