The substance of EU democratic governance promotion via transgovernmental cooperation with the Eastern neighbourhood

Organizações internacionais e a proteção da democracia

“…The use of TGAs by IGOs is generally associated with the governance model of democracy promotion. In fact, they use TGAs to change public administration rules and frameworks towards "good governance" policies (Panchuk, Bossuyt and Orbie 2017).…”

“…The type of institutional power in cases of TGAs relates to the "sectoral conditionality", in which the IGOs can possess greater bargaining power over some countries, including some democratic governance norms and policies in their particular governmental sectors (Panchuk, Bossuyt and Orbie 2017). In this sense, the IGO´s control relates to the selection and capacity provision of TG cooperation works as a democratic governance promoter.…”

“…Another aspect is the sector politicization, or the susceptibility of the sector of conflict of interest or corruption, which has some influence on the quality of democracy promotion. In this sense, TG cooperation relates to the IGO's sectoral conditionality in the particular policy sector (Panchuk, Bossuyt and Orbie 2017). Differently of NGOs, TG cooperation gives more importance to domestic factors in matters of organizational capacity, the politicization of internal bureaucracy, and the leverages of the IGOs in the incentives to produce democratic norms.…”

The Nature of EU Judicial Support in the Southern Neighbourhood: Exploring Sectoral Cooperation

“…Only a few scholars were interested in the intersection between EU democratic governance promotion and administrative reform. Notably, studies dedicated their attention to the model of governance promoted through functional cooperation (Freyburg et al 2009;Lavenex and Wichmann 2008) and most recently (Panchuk et al 2017), highlighting the democratic potential of transgovernmental EU action. In particular, it has been emphasized how the EU was able to socialize Arab civil servants towards positive attitudes in respect to democratic governance (Freyburg et al 2011(Freyburg et al : 1028.…”

Small Donors in World Politics: The Role of Trust Funds in the Foreign Aid Policies of Central and Eastern European Donors

“…Donors prefer to delegate to multilateral agencies where members have similar foreign policy preferences as they do (McLean, 2012) or to agencies which allocate aid similarly to them (Schneider and Tobin, 2011). The international development priorities of the CEE countries tend to focus on supporting countries in their neighbourhoods and transferring their experience in democratic and economic transformation to countries in transition (Panchuk et al, 2017), and so one may expect them to contribute to trust funds with similar focuses. there is a trade-off between channelling aid bilaterally or through trust funds, the CEE countries may see a stronger rationale for increasing bilateral resources.…”