Compliance after conditionality: why are the European Union’s new member states so good?
Compliance after conditionality: why are the European Union’s new member states so good?
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有条件后遵守：为什么欧盟新成员国这么好？
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2016
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Ulrich Sedelmeier
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Ulrich Sedelmeier
后共产主义时代的欧盟新成员国的良好履约记录，为文献中的主导方法提供了一个谜题。本文就加入前条件如何促进加入后的遵约提出了两种可能的解释。第一种解释是，当时的候选国建立了专门的行政能力，以执行欧盟立法，为加入欧盟做准备。这些具体能力或许能够弥补新成员公共行政普遍薄弱的情况。其次，加入前附加条件的过程使候选国认识到遵守欧盟规则与良好社区成员的适当行为之间的联系。因此，政府对欧洲一体化的积极态度可能会在这些新成员国中带来更好的合规，而在旧成员国，合规与良好成员资格之间的联系的看法要弱得多。由于这些论点的逻辑表明新旧成员国中相似因素的不同影响，我对两组成员国的遵从性进行了两步模糊集定性比较分析。结果表明，即使在实现加入之后，加入前条件的两个遗留问题仍在影响新成员国的遵守情况。
The good compliance record of the European Union’s post-communist new member states presents a puzzle for dominant approaches in the literature. This paper identifies two possible explanations for how the process of pre-accession conditionality can foster compliance after accession is achieved. The first explanation is that the then candidate countries created specialized administrative capacities for the implementation of EU legislation in preparation for EU membership. These specific capacities might be able to compensate for the otherwise generally weak public administration in the new members. Second, the process of pre-accession conditionality socialized the candidate countries into perceiving a link between compliance with the EU’s rules and appropriate behavior of good community members. Positive government attitudes towards European integration may therefore lead to better compliance in these new member states, while in the old member states the perception of a link between compliance and good membership is much weaker. Since the logic of these arguments suggests a differential impact of similar factors in old and new member states, I conduct a two-step fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of compliance in both groups of member states. The results suggest that the two legacies of pre-accession conditionality continue to affect compliance in the new member states even after accession has been achieved.