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Divergent Democracies? The Limits of the Current Political Integration

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Europeanization and European Integration

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This chapter addresses the themes of this volume, which are the relations between European integration and Europeanization and the transition from incremental to structural change, in respect of the role of the EU in the democratization process of Central and Eastern Europe and specifically the development of the political conditionality and EU strategy on democracy in candidate countries. The end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe was a typical exogenous critical juncture impacting on the evolution of the EU’s approach to the issue of democracy in the candidate countries. Over the following two decades, these developments caused in turn a process of incremental Europeanization. The result, however, was a differentiated impact of Europeanization on the new member states, due to both internal and external factors. Moreover, this differentiated Europeanization obliged the EU to adapt its strategies and tools of influence. This fact results per se in deep implications for the political integration in the European Union and the relationship between Europeanization and EU integration.

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Tomini, L. (2014). Divergent Democracies? The Limits of the Current Political Integration. In: Coman, R., Kostera, T., Tomini, L. (eds) Europeanization and European Integration. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325501_5

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