CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Palotai, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | Compliance with European Union Legislation: A Comparative Study on the Reasons of Variation in the Frequency of Non-compliance in Central and Eastern Europe |
| Summary | This paper seeks to explain variation in the frequency of non-compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern European countries from 2005 to 2015. While the overall pattern of non-compliance has decreased over time, there are member states, which violate EU law on a more regular basis than others. Moreover, the paper shows that besides the inter-state variation, there is considerable differences in terms of policy sectors. In order to explain this variation, the paper draws on the three most prominent International Relations perspectives on compliance, i.e. enforcement, management and legitimacy, and develop a set of hypotheses for each of the approaches. The paper also seeks to find an explanation for cross-sectoral differences and builds on the previous literature on compliance in the EU 15 in deriving hypotheses about the variation in non-compliance with regards to policy fields. The empirical analysis of the hypotheses suggest that integrating the various approaches, most importantly power and capacity based explanations with sectoral ones explain a very high proportion of the observed variation. Consequently, it may be concluded that non-compliance is expected in the fields of market creating activities by member states with a higher level of comparative economic power and lower level of bureaucratic capacities. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/palotai_eszter.pdf |
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