Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism

By M. Vachudova. 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Assessing the Complex Evolution of Norms: The Rise of International Election Monitoring (2008, background): “…“international recognition of the elections + + + as a vital national interest+”102 In the letter inviting CE observ- 97+ See Franck 1992, 46– 47; and Halperin 1993, 110+ 98+ See Kelley 2004a and 2004b; and Vachudova 2005+ 99+ Santa-Cruz 2005b, 82+ 100+ Alfred Stepan, “The Last Days of Pinochet?””
Tempered by the EU? Political parties and party systems before and after accession (2008, background): “…as an important signal to internal and external economic actors.2 Meanwhile, moving toward EU membership changes the character and the strength of different groups in society, increasing the pressure on the governing political parties to deliver the necessary reforms (Epstein 2008; Vachudova 2005).”
Party Competition and European Integration in the East and West (2006, background): “…conditions imposed by the European Union on candidate countries, the so-called Copenhagen criteria, require both a market economy and institutional guarantees for transparent democracy and minority protection (Vachudova, 2005)—in short, policies associated with the Right-Gal quadrant of Figure 5.”
Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution: External Influences on Postcommunist Transformations (2006, background): “…systematically consider the causal importance of the fact that his two success cases—Poland and Bulgaria—were also candidates for EU membership.31 As Vachudova (2005) has shown, the carrot of EU membership often meant that the EU could itself lend credibility to the demands of other IOs, and…”
The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy (2008, background): “Other forms of leverage, such as social influence and transnational mobilisation have proven largely ineffective (Vachudova 2005; Schimmelfennig et al. 2003, 2006).”
The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU's Eastern Neighbours (2008, background): “By comparison, the argument commonly made about Slovakia or Romania is that the incentive of EU membership galvanised opposition forces and contributed to the fall of the Meciar and Iliescu regime, respectively (Vachudova 2005).”
After conditionality: post-accession compliance with EU law in East Central Europe (2008, background): “These criticisms notwithstanding, EU conditionality was generally very effective in prompting the CEECs’ alignment with the acquis (Andonova 2003; Grabbe 2006; Jacoby 2004; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2005a; see also Kelley 2004; Vachudova 2005).”
Eastern Enlargement Ten Years On: Transcending the East–West Divide? (2014, background): “That the EU even admitted the postcommunist countries was a major break with the past and was anything but certain at the beginning of transition (Schimmelfennig, 2001; Vachudova, 2005).”