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Challenging path dependence? Ideational mapping of nationalism and the EU’s transformative power: The case of infrastructural politics in SEE

Klimov, Blagoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The research employs historical institutionalism, amplified by ideas to explain path dependent political behaviour. The theoretical framework is applied to explain political behaviour in the Balkans, where Greece and Bulgaria, despite many similarities have developed highly antagonistic...

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Less Than a state, more than an international organization: The Sui generis nature of the European Union

Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper, I show that the European Union (EU) is less than a state, but more than an international organization. Although it possesses some characteristics of both, the European Union is, I argue, a sui generis project: Although the EU wields extensive influence in some policy areas (such...

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The multilevel governance (MLG) and the respect of the subsidiarity principle

Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This article aims to show us the relation between the multilevel governance and the subsidiarity principle. The new provisions of the Lisbon Treaty will strengthen the democratic accountability of the EU and its institutions by creating new tools of communication and political dialogue. The...

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Hybridity, Multilevel Governance and Decentration: Supra versus Infra

Aliu, Armando; Parlak, Bekir; Aliu, Dorian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of our research is to examine the new trends in the hybridity research area and clarify the convergence of interests among state actors, private actors and civil society actors. Hybridity is conceived as a ‘multidimensional phenomenon’ and ‘new paradigm’ in tourism industry. The...

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Has EU Enlargement Been, and Will It Continue to Be, a Success? An Evaluation of EU Enlargement's Effects on Policies Pursued by Candidate Countries

Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper, I discuss whether enlargement has been a successful external policy of the European Union (EU). In particular, I evaluate the policy’s success based on its effects on the policies candidate countries have pursued. I argue that the prospect of entering the European Union has...

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Proposal for a measure of regional power in EU15 in the 2007-2013 bargain

Torrisi, Gianpiero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper presents an analysis with the aim to investigate the EU regional policy and in particular to consider how it has impacted on national states authority. The original point of this work consists in constructing an index to rank the power of regions in each state that consider the total...

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European Union between the Constraint of Borders and Global Competition

Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The sovereign debt crisis, which currently affects especially the European Union, challenges on the one side the actuality of hard borders and the reexamination of soft borders (Horga & Brie, 2008), and on the other side the need for the European Union to deal with an even more complex global...

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European Union failures in Greece and some possible explanations

Bitros, George C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The European Union (EU) failed repeatedly to hold Greece accountable for violations of the Treaties it signed over the past five decades. In particular, the EU not only did not express reservations in the face of these violations, but on two crucial occasions, in 1979 and again in 2000, it even...

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Europeanization or Curricular Harmonization in the Area of Administrative Sciences (Follow-Up of Bologna Process): Comparative Analysis and Empirical Research

Matei, Lucica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper aims a comparative analysis of curricula for Bachelor studies in the area of administrative sciences. The objectives of research focused on elaboration of a set of indicators, based on the curricular contents of the programmes from the first cycle in administrative sciences,aiming to...

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The Economic and Social Impact of Public Administration Europeanization

Matei, Lucica; Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

complex issue of evaluating the economic and social impact of public administration Europeanization in a methodological and … follows: - Multidisciplinary approach of the Europeanization processes, describing the systemic mechanisms of development … economic and social impact of national public administrations Europeanization by substantiating statistic models and relevant …

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