Institutional change and stability in postcommunist countries, 1990–2002

Armingeon, Klaus; Careja, Romana

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2008.00772.x

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“…Spirova (2008) also claims that European party federations had a very direct impact on party development and their choice of electoral strategies. By contrast, an analysis of 27 post-communist countries by Armingeon and Careja (2008) finds that the EU has not been important for domestic processes, such as cabinet formation or party system structuring, in accession countries.…”

Section: Living Reviews In European Governancementioning

confidence: 87%

“…The EU's impact on democratic consolidation was most pronounced in fragile democracies that did not quickly install liberal-democratic regimes in the early 1990s (Armingeon and Careja 2008;Ekiert et al 2007;Noutcheva and Bechev 2008;Pop-Eleches 2007a;Pridham 2005;Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2005a;Vachudová 2005). The EU had an impact in such states when nationalist or authoritarian forces lost elections to liberal forces, such as in Slovakia, Croatia, or Romania.…”

Section: Liberal Democratic Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. A small number of theoretically informed book-length studies of the EU's influence on the Central and Eastern European candidate countries have provided a generalisable conceptual framework for this research area, drawing on the debate between rationalist institutionalist and constructivist institutionalist approaches in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they also share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. At the same time, 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 the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well-suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. A very recent development within this research agenda is the focus on the Europeanisation of new member states. While the study of the EU's impact during the early years of membership was hitherto primarily a subfield of analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, it has now become an extension of studies of candidate countries by analysing the impact of accession on the dynamics of pre-accession Europeanisation and how durable and distinctive the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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Section: Living Reviews In European Governancementioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Liberal Democratic Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

150

121

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“…A fundamental change was possible, and the bases of new political and economic systems were laid down (Armingeon & Careja, 2008). Several authors have emphasized the magnitude and complicatedness of the changes that the CEE countries had to undertake in their transition to democracy (see, e.g., Agh, 2001, 238;Hesse, 1997;Schmitter & Santiso, 1998, 70).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Sarapuu

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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The article addresses the change in administrative structure at the center of the Estonian government during the twenty years of post-communist development. The focus is on three issues of theoretical relevance-the rate of change in the core parts of public administration, the aspired retrenchment of administrative structures, and the combination of national and international forces behind structural change. In analyzing the factors behind Estonian administrative formation, the initial deinstitutionalization of the politico-administrative system appears to be a critical factor for understanding the direction and content of the reforms undertaken.

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“…Recent studies have examined political institutions such as the constitution, executive branch and electoral framework to demonstrate path dependency stemming from early decisions in the transition period (Armingeon and Careja, 2008). This article traces one set of reforms and their outcomes in a more neglected corner of the transition landscape: the bureaucracy.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards a professional civil service in post‐transition Romania

Lee

2009

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARYTo what degree and under what conditions can a young democracy build a competent, politically neutral public bureaucracy? A crucial component of the transition from communist party rule to democracy is the creation of a professional civil service. Success along this dimension of state-building generates administrative capacity: non-elected public officials ensure the implementation of reforms initiated by political leaders. In the communist party-led regimes of Eastern Europe, forging this new administrative class from its highly politicised predecessor took place as new democracies sought to overcome historical legacies and integrate with the European Union. A case study of administrative reform in Romania during the post-1989 period suggests the importance of external influences in forming a civil service more closely adhering to the Weberian ideal of an expert, rules-based bureaucracy. Through analysis of survey data from a nationally representative sample of the Romanian civil servants, the public bureaucracy has professionalised insofar as educational and training credentials rather than political affiliation are significant predictors of salary levels.

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Institutional change and stability in postcommunist countries, 1990–2002

Cited by 58 publications

References 23 publications

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Towards a professional civil service in post‐transition Romania

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