EU Democracy Promotion

Buşcaneanu, Sergiu

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56326-2_4

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“…EU Assistance . The EU has gradually become the most important international donor in the region (Buscaneanu, 2017). Figure 5 illustrates the variation of EU financial assistance disbursed to the Eastern ENP countries in 1991–2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The PCSE results suggest that geographical proximity, as an approximation of the extent of socialization with the EU, may promote democratic consolidation too. For instance, close geographical and cultural interconnectedness makes it possible for the intensely debated themes about political reform in the EU member state Romania to reverberate also in the Moldovan public sphere (Buscaneanu, 2017). Finally, the results regarding the causal role of the leverage of and linkage with (non‐EU) democratic West or autocratic Russia, and democratic diffusion remain less conclusive and deserve further study.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To re‐evaluate the EIM, we introduce several important empirical amendments to the abovementioned data. First, unlike Schimmelfennig (2005), who measures adoption costs based on the type of party constellations – liberal, antiliberal and mixed – and Buscaneanu (2017), who evaluates domestic costs with the theoretical distance from the empirical state of a given political regime as assessed by Freedom House and Polity IV to the theoretical value at which political regimes can be considered democratic, we approximate domestic transformation costs with the V‐Dem neopatrimonial rule index ( v2x_neopat ). The exact 16 components of this index can be found in Coppedge et al (2020).…”

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“…To re‐evaluate the EIM for the Eastern ENP region in the broader framework, the paper draws on a dataset, borrowed from Buscaneanu (2017), which allows us to enact a regional (cross‐sectional) and longitudinal (time‐series) analysis for the period 1991–2014. Due to data availability, this dataset leaves out some more recent developments.…”

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The External Incentives Model Embedded: Evidence From the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood

Buscaneanu,

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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The external incentives model (EIM) proved highly compelling in explaining Europeanization and rule adoption in countries from Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. Building on the EIM, the present article seeks to contribute along three key objectives. First, it proposes to re‐evaluate the EIM for the Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Second, the paper introduces a conceptual distinction between domestic transformation costs and regulatory costs. Third, it integrates and evaluates the EIM in a broader framework, incorporating domestic and alternative international conditions. The paper combines theory‐guided case comparisons and panel data analysis, based on a dataset with evidence collected from the Eastern ENP countries. The study corroborates the EIM and finds that higher domestic transformation costs lead to lower levels of democratic development and a positive cost–benefit balance of transformation, on the other hand, tends to encourage democratic consolidation in the Eastern ENP region.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%