EU Regional Policy and the Candidate States: Poland and the Czech Republic

Baun, Michael

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“…Due to the centralized national traditions of the CEEC, sub-national entities in these states were nonexistent or lacked competencies and political power, and the European Commission's incentives to provide policy guidance for territorial reorganization in order to meet the partnership requirements of receiving Structural Funds assistance were greater than in the cases of its incumbent member states or previous enlargements (Bailey & De Propris 2002a;Baun 2002;Brusis 2002;Getimis 2003;O'Dwyer 2006;Pitschel & Bauer 2009;Sturm & Dieringer 2005). Therefore, Europeanization 'Eastern-style' stresses the hierarchical and impositional aspects of domestic adaptation, fostered by 'conditionality' (Goetz 2005;Grabbe 2001).…”

Section: The Context Of Ceecmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These countries reformed their domestic structures of local and regional governance during the period of their formal EU accession processes, which have been seen to some extent as 'Europeanization' (Baun 2002;Brusis 2002;Bruszt 2008;Grabbe 2001;Moore 2008a;O'Dwyer 2006). The Europeanization pressure, especially in the regional policy domain, was considered stronger in the case of CEEC than in EU15 due to the identical acquis communautaire, which gave an impetus for the uniform 'conditionality' 1 imposed on the candidate states.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of the European Union on Sub-National Mobilization in A Unitary State: The Case of Estonia

Tatar¹

2011

Journal of Baltic Studies

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The discussion of multi-level governance and sub-national mobilization has become a critical case for those concerned with the political and institutional consequences of European integration. The evidence so far indicates that the EU impact on the empowerment of the sub-national level has not been as uniform within member states as the multi-level governance concept traditionally would assume. This article explores the Europeanization impact on sub-national mobilization in Estonia. The results of the study address the factors affecting the emergence of multi-level governance and provide a foundation for the analysis of the possible wider applicability of these manifestations to a wider set of countries with similar territorial and political structures.

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Section: The Context Of Ceecmentioning

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The Impact of the European Union on Sub-National Mobilization in A Unitary State: The Case of Estonia

Tatar¹

2011

Journal of Baltic Studies

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“…Empirical -and increasingly theoretically informed -research in this dimension has emerged most prominently in the areas of regional policy (Baun 2002;Brusis 2005;Glenn 2004;Hughes et al 2004a,b;Jacoby 2004;Marek and Baun 2002;O'Dwyer 2006;Vass 2004), social policy (Anderson 2006;Cinca 2004;Guillén and Palier 2004;Leiber 2005;Lendvai 2004;Sissenich 2003Sissenich , 2005Woolfson 2006), environmental policy (Andonova 2003(Andonova , 2005Carmin and VanDeveer 2004), and Justice and Home Affairs (Grabbe 2000(Grabbe , 2005Lavenex 1999Lavenex , 2001Lavenex and Ucarer 2004). By contrast, studies of adjustments in the CEECs to the EU's internal market regulations are often not framed in terms of 'Europeanisation' (see e.g.…”

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Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2006

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent and still comparatively small, but -particularly since 2003 -a fast-growing research area. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. More recently, a small number of theoretically informed, book-length studies of the EU's influence on the East Central European candidate countries have established the Europeanisation of applicant states as a distinctive research area. These studies fit within a common conceptual framework, which draws on the debate between rationalist and constructivist institutionalist theories in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. On the other hand, the theoretical implications of these findings appear more clear-cut than in the case of the Europeanisation of member states: rationalist institutionalism, with its focus on the external incentives underpinning EU conditionality, and on the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. The next stage of this research agenda concerns the impact of accession on the dynamics of preaccession Europeanisation and how durable the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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“…Yet despite much recent activity in many of the CCs in putting in place sub-national bodies, national governments remain firmly in control of domestic sub-national actors, and these national governments can be seen as gatekeepers in discussions with the Commission and in terms of preparation for Structural Funding (see Bailey and De Propris, 2002b). As Baun (2002) notes, this resistance to decentralization (among CCs' national governments) stems from their recent independence and fears of fragmentation, making it 'unlikely that regionalism will progress too far in most of these regional states'. This extends Bache's concept of flexible gate-keeping to the context of the pre-membership preparation phase.…”

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A Bridge Too Phare? EU Pre‐Accession Aid and Capacity‐Building in the Candidate Countries

Bailey¹,

Propris²

2004

J of Common Market Studies

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The imminent large-scale EU enlargement raises important questions regarding the success of Phare as one of the Pre-Accession Funds in preparing candidate countries' institutions for Structural Funding, the need to reform EU regional policy itself, and to what extent the Commission is using Phare to build regional-level institutions and shift an enlarged EU towards multi-level governance. Despite some successes, Phare will not be able to deliver everything it was set up for, and a coherent set of post-accession transition policies will need to be set up as part of the next reform of the Structural Funds to ensure that the process of learning and adjustment leading to the adoption of the "acquis" does not stall with the new membership. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004.

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EU Regional Policy and the Candidate States: Poland and the Czech Republic

Cited by 26 publications

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The Impact of the European Union on Sub-National Mobilization in A Unitary State: The Case of Estonia

The Impact of the European Union on Sub-National Mobilization in A Unitary State: The Case of Estonia

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

A Bridge Too Phare? EU Pre‐Accession Aid and Capacity‐Building in the Candidate Countries

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