their public administrations with those of EU Member States. Originating from SIGMA’s work on public administration reform …This paper attempts to identify the standards to which EU candidate countries are expected to conform in order to align … describes an important part of the basis of the SIGMA methodology for assessing candidate countries’ public administration …

Intrinsic motivation is widely considered by public administration scholars as fundamental for the Public Service …

of EU instruments in problematic domestic environments, focusing on the case of public administration reform in Albania …The process of EU enlargement involves conditioning, assisting, monitoring and checking a candidate country’s capacity … to be an EU member. Those instruments have been largely credited to impact institutional change in the candidate …