Date: 2018
Type: Article
Rule of law, corruption and democratic accountability in the course of EU enlargement
Journal of European public policy, 2018, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1317-1335
ELBASANI, Arolda, ŠELO ŠABIC, Senada, Rule of law, corruption and democratic accountability in the course of EU enlargement, Journal of European public policy, 2018, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1317-1335
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Why has the European Union’s (EU’s) promotion of rule of law (RoL) triggered different and largely surface-thin reforms across countries subject to a similar frame of enlargement in the Western Balkans (WB)? We hypothesize that the domestic (non-)enforcement of EU-promoted rules depends on the mobilization of politically autonomous constituencies of change – organized advocacy groups and autonomous state institutions – which enable democratic accountability. The empirical investigation focuses on the prosecution of political corruption as empirical foci to assessing the travails of EU-promoted rules in the domestic context. Specifically, we trace the role of (1) EU’s RoL promotion strategy, (2) political resistance and (3) domestic accountability in explaining different records of prosecution of political corruption in Albania and Croatia.
Additional information:
Published online: 04 May 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/46346
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2017.1315162
ISSN: 1350-1763; 1466-4429
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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