Anchoring Democracy from Above? The European Union and Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Romania after Accession†

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The Europeanization of Eastern Europe: the external incentives model revisited (2019, methodology): “And while the EIM struggles to explain why the Romanian government broadly complied with the demands of the presidents of the Commission and the Council to cease its breaches of the rule of law (Sedelmeier 2014), it correctly predicts that compliance was more likely in the Romanian case than in Hung”
Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country? (2016, background): “classic Europeanisation literature such as ‘backsliding’ (Sedelmeier 2014) and ‘retrenchment’”
Political safeguards against democratic backsliding in the EU: the limits of material sanctions and the scope of social pressure (2017, background): “…safeguards according to © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group CONTACT Ulrich Sedelmeier u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.uk two main mechanisms through which they seek to influence the behaviour of target governments: material sanctions and social influence (Sedelmeier 2014: 113–14).”