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‘It’s the Bureaucracy, Stupid: The Implementation of the Acquis Communautaire in EU Candidate Countries, 1999-2003
Ist Teil von
European Union politics, 2006-12, Vol.7 (4), p.531-552
Ort / Verlag
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The Central and East European (CEE) countries that had applied for membership in the
European Union were confronted with far-reaching requirements in order to bring
domestic policies in line with EU standards. Notwithstanding these rather uniform
pressures emerging from conditionality, there is considerable variety in alignment
performance across the candidate countries and over time. To account for this, we
use time series cross-sectional data on the implementation performance of 13 EU
candidate countries between 1999 and 2003. Our results indicate that the
bureaucratic strength and effectiveness of a country positively influence its
ability to adjust domestic arrangements to EU requirements. By contrast, we find no
support for veto-player theories of political constraints on legislative change. We
hence conclude that the implementation of the acquis communautaire in
candidate countries prior to accession has been a question of bureaucratic problems
rather than of political veto-manoeuvres.