CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Baketa, Nikola |
|---|---|
| Title | The European Union's Conditionality Mechanism and Democratic Consolidation in the Post-communist EU Candidate Countries |
| Summary | This paper analyses to which extent the European Union’s conditionality influences democratic performance and consolidation in the post-communist countries during the period of negotiations. I start from the explanation of the basic concepts (democracy, democratic consolidation, conditionality), theoretical approach (rationalist institutionalism) and methodological approach (descriptive statistics and case study). I use four democratic indices (Nations in Transit Index, Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Vanhanen’s Index of Democracy and Unified Democracy Scores) in order to choose two cases for the case study analysis. In the case studies of Slovakia and Croatia I focus on human rights and rule of law in order to provide support for my claim. The observations show that the conditionality imposed by the European Union was not successful in the democratization of post-communist countries in the negotiations period as it is promoted by the European Union and some prominent scholars. The most important requirements in non-negotiable areas were not satisfied by the end of negotiations. |
| Supervisor | Pelinka, Anton |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/baketa_nikola.pdf |
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