Overview
- Develops perspectives on the neglected area of cohesion policy in post-accession compliance studies
- Theorizes post-communist party politics, the use of EU funds and its interaction with administrative capacities
- Provides an early instance of fuzzy-set QCA with process tracing case studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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This book examines new member states’ problems with the absorption of EU funds. Since accession, many new member states from Central and Eastern Europe struggle to access their billions of development funds from Brussels. While existing research mostly emphasizes the role of states’ administrative capacities to account for absorption problems, this study adds the so far neglected role of politics as party politicization to the equation. The argument is tested using a combination of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) with two detailed process tracing case studies. This book will appeal to scholars interested in EU cohesion policy, post-accession compliance, and post-communist politics.
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Keywords
- absorption problems
- Central and Eastern Europe
- party politicization and patronage
- pre-accession reforms
- financial and economic crisis
- cohesion policy implementation
- formal implementation, application and enforcement of EU rules
- EU enforcement
- absorption capabilities
- depoliticization
- capacity building
- accession process
- post-communist economic reform
- global financial and economic crisis
- fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- operationalization and calibration
- administrative capacities
- process tracing
- Europeanization studies
- post-communist transformations
Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christian Hagemann is Research Fellow in Policy Analysis at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. Dr Hagemann’s research in the field of EU studies particularly focuses on the EU’s transformative power in the post-communist space.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: EU Funds in the New Member States
Book Subtitle: Party Politicization, Administrative Capacities, and Absorption Problems after Accession
Authors: Christian Hagemann
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02092-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02091-0Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02092-7Published: 07 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 324
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics, Governance and Government, International Organization, Political Theory, Public Administration