Date: 2013
Type: Article
The temporal dimension of the credibility of EU conditionality and candidate states' compliance with the acquis communautaire, 1998-2009
European Union politics, 2013, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 250-272
BOEHMELT, Tobias, FREYBURG, Tina, The temporal dimension of the credibility of EU conditionality and candidate states' compliance with the acquis communautaire, 1998-2009, European Union politics, 2013, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 250-272
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33928
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Existing research seems to agree that European Union (EU) accession conditionality facilitated processes of political and economic transformation for the recent enlargement rounds. However, despite its importance, systematic research beyond small-N qualitative studies that produces generalizable insights is scarce. Most strikingly, it remains unclear at which stage of the enlargement process and to what extent candidate countries complied with EU law in the context of accession conditionality. Building upon previous theoretical accounts, the authors argue that candidates' compliance behaviour can be examined more thoroughly when focusing on the credibility of EU conditionality at different phases over the process of accession negotiations, which are characterized by varying degrees of membership probability. The article's main contribution stems from the empirical analysis, which employs generalized additive models on new data of candidate countries' compliance with EU law under accession conditionality from 1998 to 2009.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33928
Full-text via DOI: 10.1177/1465116512458164
ISSN: 1465-1165; 1741-2757
Publisher: Sage
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