Intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives for reform: An informational mechanism of E(M)U conditionality

Konstantinidis, Nikitas; Karagiannis, Yannis

doi:10.1007/s11558-020-09387-w

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“…This is an important addition to the more general IPE literature, which either mostly focuses on bargaining power (as a state level characteristic) or domestic interest (such as firms or industries) but rarely on the interplay of the two. Finally, the studies by Konstantinidis and Karagiannis (2020) as well as by Genovese and Schneider (2020) broaden our understanding of the Euro crisis either by tying the origins of the crisis to the accession of countries to the EMU or by evaluating the consequences of the crisis on national parliaments.…”

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The political economy of the European Union

2020

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The European Union (EU) currently faces many challenges. The departure of the United Kingdom in early 2020 means that for the first time in its history, it lost rather than gained a member state. Several of its member states still struggle with the long-term consequences of the financial and economic crisis that started back in 2008. The economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further strain the economies of the EU's member states. The backlash to globalization that characterizes much of the developed world in the twenty-first century imposes limits on the EU's ability to advance its trade policy agenda. Last but not least, Euroscepticism has taken hold across many EU member states, carried by populist parties that have seen their electoral fortunes improve over the past few years.It is against this background that this special issue advances research on the political economy of the EU. Political economy research investigates the interaction between politics and economics, that is, how political factors influence economic outcomes such as trade or economic growth and how economic outcomes affect politics. Both economists and political scientists contribute to this field of research, with the former mainly focusing on the impact of politics on economic outcomes, and the latter mainly interested in the effect of economic outcomes on politics. Economists, for example, ask: What are the economic gains from European integration and, specifically, from the EU customs union and European Monetary Union? To what extent are EU policies able to foster market efficiency and could some of these policies distort markets? What political economy mechanisms are at work at European institutions? Political scientists studying the political economy of the EU address questions such as: How has the Euro crisis affected the process of European integration? Can the EU use its extensive trade ties with third countries to reach broader foreign policy goals such as the enforcement of labor rights or environmental regulation? To what extent can the distributional effects of European integration explain Euroscepticism?

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The political economy of the European Union

2020

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Official sector lending during the euro area crisis

Corsetti

Erce

2020

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International constitutional advising: Introducing a new dataset

Lerner,

Pereira,

Schlager

2024

Rev Int Organ

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The article presents the first systematic comparative study on the growing involvement of international organizations in national constitution making around the world. Over the past three decades, the emerging field of international constitutional advising has undergone an intense process of institutionalization and professionalization, mirroring the increasing role constitution making is playing in both national and international politics. Despite the vast scope of the phenomenon, the involvement of foreign constitutional advisors in domestic constitution-drafting or constitutional reforms has received little scholarly attention. This article takes the first steps towards addressing this lacuna empirically, by introducing a new dataset on 46 international organizations involved in 730 constitutional advising projects in 145 countries between 1989 and 2017. We classified the organizations based on their type, their headquarters’ location, the countries they target, the kind of advising activities they perform and the level of directness of the advising intervention. While generally, we find a significant correlation between more direct constitutional advising activities and larger relative changes in the quality of democracy and larger numbers of constitutional systems in a country, the article suggests avenues for more nuanced research to better understand constitutional advising’s impact.

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives for reform: An informational mechanism of E(M)U conditionality

Cited by 6 publications

References 50 publications

The political economy of the European Union

The political economy of the European Union

Official sector lending during the euro area crisis

International constitutional advising: Introducing a new dataset

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