CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Petrovic, Valentino |
|---|---|
| Title | The Influence of EU Conditionality and Epistemic Community in Establishing Pockets of Efficiency |
| Summary | This paper addresses the question of why and how pockets of efficiency (PoE) emerge. While previous studies have been focused predominantly on the domestic-oriented explanations, this paper analyzes the influences and interaction between the external (the EU) and domestic actors (epistemic community) to provide an answer to the said question. By linking the PoE and Europeanization research streams, it theorizes a causal mechanism and uses the method of process tracing to test it on three cases of PoE that were created during Croatia’s accession negotiations. The empirical analysis identifies two causal mechanisms through which PoE could be established: 1) driven mainly by the EU due to the strong conditionality and 2) driven by the domestic epistemic community thanks to its high interest in the issues that PoEs’ are supposed to regulate. These findings contribute to the contemporary discussion on the mechanisms of compliance with the EU conditionality; and in Political Economy on different regimes and strategies of integration of “periphery” countries into transnational regimes and regional integration. In light of the current discussion on possible accession negotiations with Ukraine, the study has also political relevance. |
| Supervisor | Melnykovska, Inna |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/petrovic_valentino.pdf |
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