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Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States. IHS Political Science Series Paper, No. 112, March 2007

Falkner, Gerda, and Treib, Oliver. (2007) Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU15 Compared to New Member States. IHS Political Science Series Paper, No. 112, March 2007. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    Starting from the findings of an earlier compliance study covering the fifteen ‘old’ member states of the European Union, which identified three ‘worlds of compliance’, this paper seeks to establish whether or not the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) represent a separate world of compliance. We present empirical findings from a research project on the implementation of three EU Directives from the field of working time and equal treatment in four CEE countries. The evidence suggests that the new member states display implementation styles that are similar to a few countries in the EU15. The expectation that the new member states might behave according to their own specific logic, such as significantly decreasing their compliance efforts after accession in order to take ‘revenge’ for the strong pressure of conditionality, is not supported by our case studies. Instead, all four new member states appear to fall within a group that could be dubbed the ‘world of dead letters’. It is crucial to highlight, however, that this specific ‘world of compliance’, characterised by politicised transposition processes and systematic application and enforcement problems, also includes two countries from the EU15.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Implementation; Central and Eastern Europe; worlds of compliance.
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Slovak Republic
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Central and Eastern Europe
    Countries > Slovenia
    EU policies and themes > Treaty reform > enlargement
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > industrial/labour relations
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > law & legal affairs-general (includes international law) > compliance/national implementation
    Countries > Hungary
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > labour/labor
    Countries > Czech Republic
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), Department of Political Science > IHS Political Science Series
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2008
    Page Range: p. 32
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 17:48
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/7424

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