Does monitoring without enforcement make a difference? The EU and anti-corruption policies in Bulgaria and Romania after accession
| Autor: | Corina Lacatus, Ulrich Sedelmeier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science Corruption business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences SDG 16 - Peace Justice and Strong Institutions Conditionality International trade JN Political institutions (Europe) 16. Peace & justice 050601 international relations Accession 0506 political science Anti corruption Political science 050602 political science & public administration Sanctions media_common.cataloged_instance European union Enforcement business Mechanism (sociology) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Lacatus, C & Sedelmeier, U 2020, ' Does monitoring without enforcement make a difference? The EU and anti-corruption policies in Bulgaria and Romania after accession ', Journal of European Public Policy . https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1770842 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13501763.2020.1770842 |
| Popis: | The European Union (EU) has made effective corruption control a condition for membership, but it cannot sanction non-compliance once a country has joined. The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) was an institutional experiment to compensate the loss of sanctioning power after accession with continued monitoring. Most commentators dismiss the potential of such monitoring without enforcement. This article’s original coding of the CVM reports with regard to corruption control in Romania and Bulgaria provides an empirical basis to assess the CVM’s ability to foster compliance. It suggests that monitoring can have a positive impact on state compliance even without material sanctions: despite the low expectations in the literature, compliance in Romania was significantly better than in Bulgaria. We explain Romania’s better compliance record with successful domestic institution-building. In contrast to Bulgaria, Romania created strong anti-corruption institutions that served as a powerful institutional base for the fight against corruption. The CVM has not only had a direct effect on institution-building, but also an important indirect effect. As the anti-corruption institutions remain vulnerable to governmental interference, the CVM played a key role as a social constraint on attempts by the government to curb their power and as a focal point for societal mobilisation. |
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