CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Pancheva, Katina Ventseslavova |
|---|---|
| Title | Transplanting EU Institutions: The Role of Structural Funds in Bulgaria |
| Summary | The Structural Funds (SF) have become the major instruments for EU Cohesion Policy by imposing particular institutional models to manage the funding. Even though there are theories to explain the effectiveness and measures of SF, the national institutions managing the SF remain out of the scope of these studies. Therefore this paper attempts to answer the question: can administrative capacity of national SF institutions explain implementation variation? The question will be examined within the Europeanization theoretical framework and its concepts: multi-level governance and decentralization in NMS. The methodology applied consists of literature review, document analysis, questionnaires and open-ended interviews. The conducted research has identified the lack of imposition of explicit criteria for assessment of the administrative capacity during the EU institutional enforcement in Bulgaria. It introduces such administrative capacity criteria by using two managing institutions of Operational Program Human Resource Development as case studies and measures the level of their capacity. The provided evidence for existing correlation between administrative capacity and implementation suggests factors that account for this and recommendations how it could be improved. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina Dimitrova |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/pancheva_katina.pdf |
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