Titlebook: Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU‘s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe; The Myth of Conditio James Hughes,Gwendolyn Sass

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Elites and the Normative Capacity for Europeanization,mplementation of the . The capacity to adopt or implement the . requires not simply transposition through a domestic legislative gallop, but also a cognitive adjustment by elites who must not only learn to ‘speak European’, but also become acculturated and assimilated into European norms and ‘ways o

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Introduction, vaguely defined ‘return to Europe’ encapsulated by EU membership, has underpinned the study of enlargement. There is a widespread assumption of power asymmetry derived from the supposedly unprecedented scope for EU conditionality to both shape the policy and structural outcomes in the new member st

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Communist Legacies and Regionalization,historical legacies and the extent to which a transition state has a ‘usable past’ are generally recognized as having an important bearing on the transition outcome.. The term ‘historical legacy’ and the issue of ‘usability’ are, however, not systematically researched in the study of transition. Par

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Monitoring Conditionality and Compliance,with conditionality must be fairly evaluated. Regular monitoring was chosen by the EU as the means to communicate the criteria of accession and assess progress and to highlight shortcomings in adaptation by the CEECs. The Opinions of 1997 and the five sets of annual Regular Reports from 1998 to 2002

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Transition, Enlargement and Regionalization: a Comparison of Hungary and Poland,eme of democratic state-building. As discussed in Chapter 2 most countries introduced democratizing and decentralizing changes to the structure of local government (see Table 2.1). In formulating these reforms domestic policy-makers looked to their historical legacies of pre-communist experiences, t

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Elites and the Normative Capacity for Europeanization,more broadly. As we have seen in Chapter 4, the Commission employed the term as a generic label for the parts of the . that required new institutional structures, management and organizational arrangements and staffing levels, all of which were often seen as being deficient in the CEECs. ‘Capacity’