The Impact of the EU on Governance Reforms in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparison between First and Second-Wave Candidates

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Mendelski, Martin
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ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE | 2009年 / 9卷 / 02期
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Europeanization; EU conditionality; governance reforms; CIVIL-SERVICE; EUROPEANIZATION; CONDITIONALITY; MODERNIZATION; STATE;
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The article aims to elucidate the variation in governance quality (administrative and judicial quality) among those post-communist countries which were granted EU membership in the late 1990s. It is argued that the differences in governance development between the more advanced first-wave EU candidates (Luxembourg group) and the less advanced second-wave EU candidates (Helsinki group) cannot be solely explained by historical domestic factors (pre-communist and communist legacies), but by more recent and external factors, such as EU conditionality. The impact of the EU on governance quality is revealed in an indicator-based comparative analysis, which yields two main findings. First, EU conditionality had a stronger impact on governance quality in the Helsinki group than in the Luxem-bourg group. Second, despite a substantial impact on the formal and efficiency-related as-pects of governance, persisting structural and power-related aspects exposed the limits of EU conditionality.
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