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Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union This work has been published by the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. © European University Institute 2018 Editorial matter and selection © Michał Matlak, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, 2018 Chapters © authors individually 2018 doi:10.2870/675963 ISBN:978-92-9084-707-6 QM-06-18-198-EN-N This text may be downloaded only for personal research purposes. Any additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copies or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the year and the publisher Views expressed in this publication reflect the opinion of individual authors and not those of the European University Institute. Artwork: ©Shutterstock: patrice6000 The European Commission supports the EUI through the European Union budget. This publication reflects the views only of the author(s), and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. EUROPEANIZATION REVISITED: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Editors: Michał Matlak, Frank Schimmelfennig and Tomasz P. Woźniakowski In memoriam Nicky Owtram TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographies 1 Acknowledgments 4 Foreword 5 Europeanization Revisited: An Introduction Tomasz P. Woźniakowski, Frank Schimmelfennig and Michał Matlak 6 The Europeanization of Eastern Europe: the External Incentives Model Revisited Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier 19 New Ways of Influence: ‘Horizontal’ Europeanization in Southeast Europe Graeme Crouch 38 Europeanization in New Member States: Effects on Domestic Political Structures Flavia Jurje 55 Against Overemphasizing Enforcement in the Current Crisis EU Law and the Rule of Law in the (New) Member States Dimitry Kochenov and Petra Bárd 72 From static to dynamic Europeanization: The case of Central and Eastern European developmental strategies Dorothee Bohle and Wade Jacoby 90 Implementing EU cohesion policy in the Eastern member states: quality of government balancing between equity and efficiency Gergő Medve-Bálint 108 Europeanizing development: EU integration and developmental state capacities in Eastern Europe Visnja Vukov 127 Europeanization and Euro Adoption Amy Verdun 143 in Central Europe (Cambridge). He has BIOGRAPHIES published articles in World Politics,Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and many Petra Bárd, LL.M. PhD, is Associate Professor others. He received the DAAD Prize for his at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, and scholarship on Germany and the EU and was a is Visiting Faculty and Senior Researcher at the Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute Central European University’s (CEU) Legal Studies and a Senior Fellow at the US Treasury. Jacoby is Department. She contributes to several research co-editor of German Politics and serves on the projects including the EU funded RECONNECT, editorial boards ofGovernance and European which is a four-year multidisciplinary research Security. project on reconciling Europe with its citizens through democracy and the rule of law. She Flavia Jurje is a Guest Lecturer at the Swiss regularly authors studies on the rule of law and EU Graduate School of Public Administration, criminal justice for the European Parliament, and University of Lausanne. Previously, she worked other EU institutions or agencies. as a Senior Researcher at the Global Studies Institute (University of Geneva) and University Dorothee Bohle is Professor of Political Science of Lucerne respectively, as well as a scientific at the European University Institute, Florence. collaborator within the NCCR Trade Regulation Her research is at the intersection of comparative at the World Trade Institute in Bern. Flavia has politics and political economy with a special authored several publications, among which focus on East Central Europe. She is the author of “Mobility Norms in Free Trade Agreements: Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery (Cornell Migration Governance in Asia Between Regional University Press 2012, co-authored with Béla Integration and Free Trade” (European Journal Greskovits), and of Europe’s New Periphery: Poland’s of East Asian Studies, 2018, co-authored); “EU/ Transformation and Transnational Integration (in US migration policy towards emerging countries: German, Münster 2002). Her publications have regulatory power reversed?” (European Foreign also appeared in in Comparative Politics, Studies Affairs Review, 2017, co-authored); “Regional in Comparative International Development, West Migration Governance” (Oxford Handbook of European Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Comparative Regionalism, 2016, co-authored); Journal of Sociology, and Review of International “Trade Agreements as Venues for ‘Market Power Political Economy. Europe’? The Case of Immigration Policy” (Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, co-authored) Graeme Crouch is an adjunct research fellow in the and a book on “Europeanization in New Member Department of Political Science at the University States” (Routledge, 2013). She received a PhD in of Victoria. His current research projects focus Political Science from ETH Zurich in 2010. on civil servant cooperation, interjurisdictional regulatory frameworks, mechanisms of EU Dimitry Kochenov holds the Chair of EU integration, political contestation, and NGO Constitutional Law in Groningen. His latest mobilization. (co-) edited works include EU Citizenship and Federalism (Cambridge, 2017); The Enforcement of Wade Jacoby is Mary Lou Fulton Professor of EU Law and Values (with András Jakab, Oxford, political science at Brigham Young University. 2017); Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the He is author ofImitation and Politics: Redesigning EU (with Carlos Closa, Cambridge, 2016). His Modern Germany (Cornell) and The Enlargement new monograph Citizenship is appearing next of the EU and Nato: Ordering from the Menu year with MIT Press. 1 BIOGRAPHIES Michał Matlak obtained his PhD at the University Press, 2005) and the co-editor of Department of Political and Social Sciences at the ‘The Europeanization of Central and Eastern European University Institute in Florence. He was a Europe (Cornell University Press, 2005), ‘The Politics visiting scholar at the Princeton University, Hertie of European Union Enlargement’ (Routledge, 2005), School of Governance in Berlin and the Institute ‘Developments in European Politics’ (Palgrave, for Human Sciences in Vienna (Józef Tischner 2006), and ‘International Influence Beyond Fellow). He is currently working at the European Conditionality: Postcommunist Europe after EU Parliament as a policy advisor to the European Enlargement’(Routledge, 2009). He has published Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee articles in Journal of Common Market Studies; Chair and a visiting fellow at the Alcide de Gasperi Journal of European Public Policy;Politique Research Centre. His main research interests Européenne; West European Politics. are: religion and politics, Europeanization, institutional design of the European Union. Dr Amy Verdun is Professor in European Politics and Political Economy. She joined the Institute in Gergő Medve-Bálint, PhD in Political Science July 2018. She is on leave from the Department from Central European University, is Senior of Political Science of the University of Victoria Research Fellow at the Center for Social Sciences (UVic), BC Canada where she has been since (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Assistant 1997 and Full Professor since 2005. Her research Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Corvinus deals with European integration, governance University of Budapest. He has specialized in and policy-making, political economy, as well as political economy and his research focuses on comparisons between the EU and Canada. To date exploring the effects of European integration on she has published 20 books, more than 120 peer- foreign direct investment, regional development reviewed articles and chapters. Her most recent and territorial inequality in East Central Europe. book is a co-edited student textbook (with Achim Hurrelmann and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly): Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European European Union Governance and Policy Making: Politics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Center A Canadian Perspective (University of Toronto for Comparative and International Studies. He Press, March 2018). She was the recipient of the has published widely on EU enlargement, the 2009 Craigdarroch Silver Medal for Excellence in Europeanization of candidate countries and Research of the University of Victoria and in 2017 external governance in the EU’s neighbourhood. the prestigious Lansdowne Distinguished Fellow His work includes The Europeanization of Central award and the European Community Studies- and Eastern Europe(Cornell University Press 2005, Association Canada teaching award, 2018. From co-edited with Ulrich Sedelmeier) and Democracy 2010-2017 she was co-editor (with Michelle Cini) Promotion by Functional Cooperation. The of the JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. European Union and its Neighbourhood (Palgrave At UVic she served as Founder and Director of the Macmillan, 2015, co-authored with Tina European Studies Program (1997-2005); Graduate Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex Tatiana Skripka and Advisor (2007-2009); and as Chair (Head) of the Anne Wetzel). Department (2010-2013). Ulrich Sedelmeier is an Associate Professor Visnja Vukov is assistant professor
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