Democratization through European integration: The case of minority rights in the Czech Republic and Romania
Democratization through European integration: The case of minority rights in the Czech Republic and Romania
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通过欧洲一体化实现民主化：捷克共和国和罗马尼亚的少数群体权利案例
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2003
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M. H. Ram
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M. H. Ram
虽然学者们往往将重点放在对民主巩固最为关键的国内因素上，但由于其加入欧盟的目标，后共产主义的欧盟候选国呈现出国内政策和外交政策独特的融合。本文评估并比较了欧盟在两个不同的候选国转型的第一个十年中对政策制定的影响，重点关注少数群体权利保护，这是加入欧盟和稳定民主的基本要求。我发现，欧盟在候选国的改革进程和民主巩固中发挥了主要作用，即使是在有争议的少数群体权利领域也是如此。然而，欧盟影响的程度和性质在一定程度上取决于特定少数群体的积极性、欧盟的利益和压力、欧盟成员国自身的国内政策以及社会中种族主义的持续存在。
While scholars have tended to focus on domestic factors as most critical to the consolidation of democracy, the post-communist European Union (EU) candidate states have exhibited a unique confluence of domestic and foreign policies, due to their objective of EU membership. This article assesses and compares the impact of the EU on policy making in two diverse candidate states in their first decade of transition, focusing on minority rights protection as a fundamental requirement of both EU membership and a stable democracy. I find that the EU has played a principal role in the reform process and democratic consolidation of candidate states, even in the controversial field of minority rights. The degree and nature of the EU’s impact, however, has depended in part on the activism of the particular minority, EU interest and pressure, EU Member States’ own domestic policies, and the persistence of racism in society.