EU Funds in the New Member States
ISBN:
978-3-03-002091-0
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.01.2019
Reihe:
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
324
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This book examines new member states’ problems with the absorption of EU funds. Since accession, many new member states from Central and Eastern Europe struggle to access their billions of development funds from Brussels. While existing research mostly emphasizes the role of states’ administrative capacities to account for absorption problems, this study adds the so far neglected role of politics as party politicization to the equation. The argument is tested using a combination of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) with two detailed process tracing case studies. This book will appeal to scholars interested in EU cohesion policy, post-accession compliance, and post-communist politics.
Schlagwörter
Central and Eastern Europe
process tracing
capacity building
fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
cohesion policy implementation
EU enforcement
accession process
absorption problems
formal implementation
pre-accession reforms
Europeanization studies
absorption capabilities
administrative capacities
financial and economic crisis
post-communist economic reform
post-communist transformations
operationalization and calibration
party politicization and patronage
global financial and economic crisis
application and enforcement of EU rules
Biografische Anmerkung
Christian Hagemann is Research Fellow in Policy Analysis at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. Dr Hagemann’s research in the field of EU studies particularly focuses on the EU’s transformative power in the post-communist space.
