Embracing European Law : Compliance with EU Directives in Central and Eastern Europe

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Toshkov, Dimiter

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Abstract	Accession to the European Union (EU) demands the adoption of a vast body of legislation. This paper analyses compliance with EU directives in eight post-communist countries during the Eastern enlargement and tries to account for the puzzling embrace of EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a new data set tracking the transposition of a sample of 119 directives, the paper finds effects of both political preferences and government capacity on the likelihood of timely transposition. Furthermore, important sectoral differences are uncovered, with trade-related legislation having a better chance and environmental legislation having a significantly worse chance of being incorporated into national legal systems on time. Beyond the conditionality of the accession process, the paper unveils a complex causal structure behind the ups and downs in transposition performance.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	implementation
Klassifikation	Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen; Europapolitik
Freie Schlagwörter	Central and Eastern Europe; compliance; Enlargement; transposition;
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2008
Seitenangabe	S. 379-402
Zeitschriftentitel	European Union Politics, 9 (2008) 3
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1465116508093490
Status	Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)