Six Lessons of Enlargement Ten Years On: The <scp>EU</scp>'s Transformative Power in Retrospect and Prospect

Grabbe, Heather

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“…The regulatory quality indicator therefore shows a substantial variance of the regulatory quality over time, ranging from 0.62 to 4.25; the mean is 2.40 (see Table ). Also, the descriptive statistics do not point at any backsliding in terms of regulatory quality during the accession process, confirming the notion that compliance with laws and policies passed as part of the EU enlargement process are long‐lasting (Grabbe, ).…”

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Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Böheim

Friesenbichler

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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This paper studies the role of a country's EU membership status as an explanatory factor of regulatory quality. It argues that accession to the European Union improves the quality of regulation via the implementation of pro‐competitive policies embedded in the Community Acquis. We assess this conjecture empirically for the (former) transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, using Member States as well as developing and developed countries in Europe and Central Asia as a control group. The data used is a macro‐economic panel of 48 countries covering six three‐year periods between 1995 and 2012. We find that EU accession positively affected the quality of competition policies over and above an overall trend towards more market‐oriented policies. The improvement in competition policies was not reversed in a single country of the sample, documenting the strong and sustainable transformative power of the EU. The findings are robust when controlling for endogeneity issues.

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Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Böheim

Friesenbichler

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The analysis of Estonia and Hungary showed different path trajectories and mechanisms of institutional change, building upon earlier lessons of Europeanization and the transformative power of the EU in the CEE (Brusis, 2002;Grabbe, 2001Grabbe, , 2014. Along the common timeline of EUCP development, Hungary exhibited incremental change on a path toward regionalization that was later reversed with centralization, while Estonia exhibited radical change that initially centralised regional policy and left a somewhat conspicuous institutional void.…”

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“…Prior research on CEE countries examined processes of administrative and territorial reform (e.g., Brusis, 1999Brusis, , 2002Bruszt, 2008), framed as 'Europeanization' (Grabbe, 2001(Grabbe, , 2014, and implying institutional convergence to a European norm. Given the divergent political-institutional structures and regional development outcomes now existing between CEE countries, it follows from the HI literature that institutional legacies and different mechanisms of change may yet play a role in EUCP implementations and outcomes.…”

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Cohesion Policy and institutional change in Hungary and Estonia

Loewen

2018

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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In the discourse on European Union Cohesion Policy (EUCP) reform, much attention is being paid to policy content, while less attention is being paid to the institutions responsible for adapting and implementing EUCP in national contexts. From a historical institutionalist perspective, regional policy institutions in EU member states are influenced in part by EUCP and national institutional contexts and legacies. Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, in particular, have grappled with institutional transformations in the recent era including the transition, pre-accession and post-accession periods, but the influence of EUCP on institutional change has not been well studied following EU accession. Using the cases of Hungary and Estonia, this study builds upon comparative research on CEE from the transition and preaccession periods, providing an updated view of institutional developments with the aim of widening current understandings of EUCP. Different mechanisms of institutional change are highlighted, pointing to cross-country inconsistencies in the Europeanization process and implementations of EUCP resulting in weak institutions and ambiguity surrounding core policy concepts. Thus, the study reinforces the importance of national institutions for EUCP outcomes and legitimacy, which should factor into current discussions of EUCP reform for the future programming period. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Yet in spite of this, the EU has found that states have reneged on their commitments upon accession, and so it has increasingly sought to lock in commitments and create post-accession monitoring and verification policies. The effect of this has been a marked slowing down of subsequent accession negotiations (Grabbe 2014). While post-accession financial instruments have continued to be an important resource in providing structural support, there is rising concern that this does not address the underlying problems of effective governance, bearing in mind the continued problems in terms of rule of law, corruption, and democratic practices in existing member states (MungiuPippidi 2014).…”

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21st Century Cooperation : Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development

Estevadeordal¹,

Goodman²

2017

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This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations. By presenting a new and original data set and by presenting original essays by renowned scholars, this book lays the foundation for what will become an increasingly important focus for both economic development and international relations as well as for their intersection.The volume contains four parts. The first introduces the core issues and concepts that are explored throughout the book as well as a new and original data set on RPGs. The second part further develops specific concepts important for understanding 21st-century RPGs: regional leadership, alliances, networks, and outcomes. The third examines how cooperation takes place worldwide for a range of important RPGs. Finally, the fourth part discusses how public goods are produced in specific regions, stressing that each region has a distinct context and that these contexts overlap in a decentered "multiplex" manner.Global economic cooperation will be different in the 21st century, and this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of global governance, economic development, international political economy, sustainable development, and comparative regionalism. Antoni Estevadeordal is Manager, Integration and Trade Sector, InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB).Louis W. Goodman is Professor and Emeritus Dean, School of International Service, American University. 21st Century CooperationRegional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal and Louis W. Goodman British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library (Bilateral, 1945(Bilateral, -2014 31 2.6 Regionality of Brazil by RPG Function (Bilateral, 1945(Bilateral, -2014 Paulo Barbieri is Regional Public Goods Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Suh-Yong Chung is Professor of the Division of International Studies at Korea University.Uri Dadush is Senior Fellow, OCP Policy Center, Rabat. He is also NonResident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels. Michelle Egan is Jean Monnet Professor Louis W. Goodman is Professor and Emeritus Dean of the School ofInternational Service at American University, Washington, D.C. Jacint Jordana is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also Director of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals.Theodore Kahn is a doctoral candidate at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Masahiro Kawai is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of PublicPolicy at the University of Tokyo. Teng Liu is Research Associate in Inte...

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Six Lessons of Enlargement Ten Years On: The EU's Transformative Power in Retrospect and Prospect

Cited by 67 publications

References 14 publications

Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Cohesion Policy and institutional change in Hungary and Estonia

21st Century Cooperation : Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development

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