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Multilateral institutions, accession conditionality and rule transfer in the European Union: the Energy Community in South East Europe
In: Journal of public policy, Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 261-282
ISSN: 1469-7815
AbstractConditionality is widely used by international organisations to induce "client states" to engage in structural reform. In the European Union (EU) it plays an important role in ensuring that accession countries adopt EU rules as a condition of membership. Reliance on external incentives, however, limits the effectiveness of bilateral accession conditionality, especially for pre-accession countries with uncertain membership prospects. This article argues that multilateral institutions can boost the rule transfer effects of bilateral accession conditionality by reinforcing its incentive structure. The contention is tested by empirical research into the Energy Community in South East Europe. The research uses cross-national and cross-sectoral comparison to evaluate the rule transfer effects of Community institutions relative to accession conditionality and the terms of energy interdependence. It finds that whilst accession status is the main predictor of alignment with the energy acquis, there is evidence that multilateral institutions of the Energy Community exert a significant reinforcement effect.
Energy Co-operation in the Wider Europe: Institutionalizing Interdependence
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Volume 49, Issue 5, p. 1065-1087
ISSN: 1468-5965
Energy co-operation in the wider Europe: institutionalizing interdependence
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Volume 49, Issue 5, p. 1065-1087
ISSN: 0021-9886
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The party politics of economic reform: Public opinion, party positions and partisan cleavages
In: German politics, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 248-274
ISSN: 1743-8993
The party politics of economic reform: public opinion, party positions and partisan cleavages
In: German politics: Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. Special Issue: The politics of economic reform in Germany: global, Rhineland or hybrid capitalism?, S. 248-274
ISSN: 0964-4008
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Welfare bias in the party system: a neo-Downsian explanation for gridlock in economic reform
In: German politics, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 360-383
ISSN: 1743-8993
Welfare bias in the party system: a neo-Downsian explanation for gridlock in economic reform
In: German politics: Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 360-383
ISSN: 0964-4008
Employing neo-Downsian theory, the article seeks a party system explanation for the difficulties experienced by political actors in seeking to reform the declining German economy. Taking the UK as a comparator, it investigates the linkages between voter preferences, party positions and government programmes in relation to the market economy and welfare. Whilst the main German parties have recently leapfrogged their UK counterparts in the emphasis placed on the market economy, there is still a 'welfare bias' that inhibits them from adopting sharply defined market positions. Welfare bias is attributed to voter preferences, and, in particular, to the diffuse distribution of voter preferences across the party system. (German Politics / FUB)
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Between synthesis and emulation: EU policy transfer in the power sector
In: Journal of European public policy, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 227-245
ISSN: 1466-4429
Germany: Modernising the Left by Stealth
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Volume 56, Issue 1, p. 38-57
ISSN: 0031-2290
Between synthesis and emulation: EU policy transfer in the Power sector
In: Journal of European public policy, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 227-245
ISSN: 1350-1763
The German Volkspartei and the Career of the Catch-all Concept
In: German politics, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 51-72
ISSN: 1743-8993
The German Volkspartei and the career of the catch-all concept
In: German politics: Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. Special Issue: Continuity and change in German politics, S. 51-72
ISSN: 0964-4008
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Organizing democracy: Economic interest groups in post‐communist Germany
In: The journal of communist studies & transition politics, Volume 15, Issue 3, p. 1-23
ISSN: 1743-9116
The boundaries of stability: The party system before and after the 1998 Bundestagswahl
In: German politics, Volume 8, Issue 2, p. 88-107
ISSN: 1743-8993