The EU's Transformative Power

Grabbe, Heather

doi:10.1057/9780230510302

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“…A recent study demonstrated that candidates adapted respective regulations comprehensively and without delay because they were in line with their own interests, i.e. that their own citizens have the possibility to move freely in the whole EU and that wages would be driven up with incoming foreign workers (Grabbe 2006). The implementation of rules that are of subordinated importance or that are less attractive to them, however, is likely to be postponed.…”

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Differential Europeanization in Eastern Europe: The Impact of Diverse EU Regulatory Governance Patterns

Bauer

Knill

Pitschel

2007

Journal of European Integration

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When analysing processes of domestic institutional and political change in Central and Eastern Europe, political scientists frequently refer to the concept of Europeanization. This article focuses the policy-analytical framework as one central Europeanization approach and addresses the question of whether this approach is applicable to explain domestic change beyond the core of EU member states. The policyanalytical approach systematically analyses the impact of different modes of EU governance on process and outcome of national institutional and policy change. The article demonstrates that in distinguishing the different potential of compliance, competition and communication to trigger domestic adjustments, the policy-analytical approach proves to be a useful tool for predicting domestic change in states outside the EU. It helps generate differentiated hypotheses about the potential impacts of EU policies in Central and Eastern European candidate countries that are likely to join the EU in the foreseeable future and in non-member states with only minimal or no accession prospects.

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Section: Competitionmentioning

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Differential Europeanization in Eastern Europe: The Impact of Diverse EU Regulatory Governance Patterns

Bauer

Knill

Pitschel

2007

Journal of European Integration

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“…1 After the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, democracy promotion became an integral part of the foreign policy of Western states and established itself as a new field of action for Western international and regional organizations. 2 After the initial enthusiasm about the EU's transformative power in Central and Eastern Europe, 3 Western efforts at supporting democratic transition and stabilizing democratic consolidation have been increasingly deemed ineffective. 4 The failure of the West to bring its…”

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The noble west and the dirty rest? Western democracy promoters and illiberal regional powers

Börzel

2015

Democratization

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“…The first generation of Europeanization scholars argued that the eu's impact is mainly positive, i.e. that the eu has democratization and transformative power (Ekiert et al 2007;Vachudova 2005;Grabbe 2006). The second generation of scholars, on the other hand, maintained that there are limits to the eu's transformative power due to unfavorable domestic conditions (e.g.…”

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Europeanization and the Rule of Law: Towards a Pathological Turn

Mendelski

2016

Southeast Eur

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Recent scholarship has exposed the "eu's pathological power", which has undermined the creation of the rule of law in South Eastern Europe (see) and beyond. This paper discusses the "pathological turn" in Europeanization studies by identifying and providing evidence for several "pathologies of Europeanization", i.e. legal and political deficiencies related to rule of law reform, such as legal instability, lack of generality and enforcement, and increased politicization. These pathologies result, among others, from a deficient approach of the eu to rule of law promotion and assessment. In particular, the author highlights three main fundamental problems of Europeanization in the area of the rule of law: 1) valuing quantity over quality; 2) partisan empowerment of domestic change agents; and 3) biased assessment of the rule of law. These problematic issues are further clarified on selected country examples of reform failure from see and the 2012 "rule of law crisis" in Romania. It is argued that given the eu's inability to objectively assess and effectively promote the rule of law, the eu should either abstain from evaluating rule of law or radically revise its approach and methodology, for instance by following the policy advice provided in this paper.

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The EU's Transformative Power

Cited by 304 publications

References 36 publications

Differential Europeanization in Eastern Europe: The Impact of Diverse EU Regulatory Governance Patterns

Differential Europeanization in Eastern Europe: The Impact of Diverse EU Regulatory Governance Patterns

The noble west and the dirty rest? Western democracy promoters and illiberal regional powers

Europeanization and the Rule of Law: Towards a Pathological Turn

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