Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe
Toshkov, D.D.
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Toshkov, D. D. (2009, March 25). Between politics and administration : compliance with EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Between politics and administration: Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved from
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CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES ... vi
LIST OF TABLES ... vii
PREFACE ... viii
ABBREVIATIONS………...…….xii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION... 1
1.1 Research puzzle ...1
1.2 Research question ...3
1.3 Compliance, implementation, transposition ...4
1.4 Practical and societal relevance ...5
1.5 Scientific relevance ...8
1.6 Research design ... 12
1.7 Plan of the book ... 14
CHAPTER 2 NEGOTIATING EU MEMBERSHIP: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW ... 17
2.1 Early contacts and association agreements ... 17
2.2 Clearing the way for enlargement ... 18
2.3 Negotiations for membership ... 21
2.4 EU coordination structures ... 26
2.5 Conclusion ... 30
CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW ... 33
3.1 Studying the incorporation of EU law in the candidate countries ... 33
3.2 Studying policy change in the candidate countries ... 36
3.3 Studying transposition and compliance in the EC/EU ... 38
Macro-institutional factors ... 39
Capacity ... 41
Preferences ... 42
Political and legal culture ... 43
Features of the directive ... 45
Features of the national legislative process ... 46
Power, learning, and enforcement ... 46
3.4 Conclusions ... 47
CHAPTER 4 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ... 54
4.1 Introduction ... 54
4.2 Decision-making model under institutional constraints ... 56
4.3 Solving the model ... 59
4.4 The impact of preferences ... 61
4.5 Administrative constraint ... 64
4.6 Policy-making constraint ... 65
4.7 Preference salience ... 69
4.8 Expected transposition patterns ... 72
4.9 Overview ... 74
CHAPTER 5 EXPLAINING VARIATION IN TRANSPOSITION PERFORMANCE: COUNTRY-LEVEL ANALYSIS ... 82
5.1 Differences in transposition performance ... 82
5.2 The influence of preference salience ... 84
5.3 Administrative capacity ... 87
5.4 Policy-making capacity ... 91
5.5 Conclusion ... 94
CHAPTER 6 EXPLAINING VARIATION IN TRANSPOSITION PERFORMANCE: DIRECTIVE-LEVEL ANALYSIS ... 96
6.1 Sample selection ... 96
6.2 Dependent variable ... 98
6.3 Independent variables ... 100
6.4 Method of analysis ... 103
6.5 Results and interpretation ... 103
Statistical model estimates ... 103
Interaction effects... 105
Size of the effects and predicted probabilities ... 110
6.6 Conclusion ... 113
CHAPTER 7 COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY DESIGN AND CASE SELECTION .... 114
7.1 Infringement procedures and compliance with EU law in CEE ... 114
7.2 Research design of the comparative case studies ... 120
CHAPTER 8 REGULATING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ... 124
8.1 Information society policy ... 124
8.2 Transposition of the telecom package in the EU: old and new member states ... 126
8.3 The Czech Republic: administrative or political reasons for delay ... 129
8.4 Estonia: high ambitions and low capacity ... 132
8.5 Lithuania: early start and prioritizing the EU ... 133
8.6 Poland: organizational mismatch and (political) opposition ... 135
8.7 Slovenia ... 136
8.8 Transposition and interpretation ... 138
8.9 Practical implementation: market reviews ... 140
8.10 Cross-country comparisons ... 141
CHAPTER 9 ESTABLISHING THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR WORKING CONDITIONS ... 144
9.1 Social policy in the EU ... 144
9.2 Social policy transposition in CEE ... 146
9.3 Hungary and Poland: smooth transposition ... 148
9.4 Slovakia and Lithuania: problems with implementation... 148
9.5 Latvia and Slovenia – transposition delays ... 149
CHAPTER 10 PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT ... 151
10.1 Nature protection policy in the EU ... 151
10.2 The Czech Republic: a success? ... 153
10.3 Estonia: selective inclusion of consultation and co-operation partners ... 154
10.4 Hungary: belated transposition ... 155
10.5 Latvia: early and encompassing consultation ... 156
10.6 Slovakia: early preparation, much consultation, but limited success ... 158
10.7 Cross-country comparisons ... 158
CHAPTER 11 SYNTHESIS OF EMPRICAL FINDINGS ... 160
11.1 Comparing aggregate performance across sectors ... 160
11.2 Explaining within-country variation ... 160
11.3 The effect of preferences, administrative and policy-making capacities ... 163
CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSION ... 167
12 1 Empirical contributions ... 167
12.2 Theoretical and methodological contributions ... 172
12.3 Normative implications ... 175
APPENDIX I EC DIRECTIVES: LEGAL BACKGROUND ... 179
APPENDIX II FORMALIZING THE THEORETICAL MODEL ... 181
II.1 Deriving the solution of the constrained optimization problem ... 181
II.2 Proof of Hypotheses 3a and 3b……….182
II.3 Proof of Hypotheses 4a and 4b……….183
APPENDIX III EMPIRICAL RESULTS FROM DURATION MODELS ... 184
III.1 Data and method ... 184
III.2 Results ... 184
III.3 Comparison with the logistic regression analysis ... 185
APPENDIX IV CONTENT ANALYSIS DICTIONARY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY LEGISLATION ... 187
APPENDIX V LIST OF INTERVIEWS ... 189
REFERENCES ... 191
SAMENVATTING ... 202
CURRICULUM VITAE ... 208
