Embracing European Law

Dimiter Toshkov
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Dimiter Toshkov: Leiden University, The Netherlands, DToshkov@fsw.LeidenUniv.nl

European Union Politics, 2008, vol. 9, issue 3, 379-402

Abstract: Accession to the European Union (EU) demands the adoption of a vast body of legislation. This paper analyses compliance with EU directives in eight post-communist countries during the Eastern enlargement and tries to account for the puzzling embrace of EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a new data set tracking the transposition of a sample of 119 directives, the paper finds effects of both political preferences and government capacity on the likelihood of timely transposition. Furthermore, important sectoral differences are uncovered, with trade-related legislation having a better chance and environmental legislation having a significantly worse chance of being incorporated into national legal systems on time. Beyond the conditionality of the accession process, the paper unveils a complex causal structure behind the ups and downs in transposition performance.

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe; compliance; Enlargement; implementation; transposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116508093490

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