Europarties and party development in EU-candidate states: The case of Bulgaria

Spirova, Мaria

doi:10.1080/09668130802085166

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“…A good way of illustrating this phenomenon is examining the role of transnational party actors (TPA). Many scholars suggested that TPA played a significant role during the accession process, especially in the states Vachudova saw as ‘illiberal’ (for example, Pridham, ; Spirova, ), not least offering to those parties linked to TPAs ‘financial and material resources, expertise and legitimacy’ (Von dem Berge and Poguntke, , p. 312). Even those who suggest a more limited impact see TPA as playing the role of a ‘badge of approval’ or kite mark (Haughton and Rybář, ).…”

Section: Boundaries: On the Margins But Not Necessarily Marginalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics: The EU and the Development of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Haughton

2013

J of Common Market Studies

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In line with expectations EU membership has only a limited impact on party politics in the new Member States of central and eastern Europe (CEE); even the economic crisis has not altered this level of impact. An examination of party positioning, party appeals and party competition indicates the EU plays the role of a boundary keeper, a reference point and a weapon to be invoked in domestic competition, particularly to lambast opponents for their incompetence, especially when it comes to the ability to access and manage EU funds. Underlying parties' stances on European integration are the deep‐rooted vulnerabilities which help explain why the CEE states recognize the necessity of co‐operation and a pooling of sovereignty at the European level.

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Section: Boundaries: On the Margins But Not Necessarily Marginalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics: The EU and the Development of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Haughton

2013

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The unconsolidated party systems of the eastern candidate countries may have been more susceptible to external influence, not least through European transnational party organisations that have been particularly active (Dakowska 2002;Lewis 2003;Pridham 1999;Pridham 2005: 164-166;Spirova 2008). Moreover, the proximity of accession has made the EU a more politicised issue than in the old member states (Ladrech 2009 Enyedi and Lewis (2007) identify two main areas in which the EU's impact was most apparent.…”

Section: Living Reviews In European Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the EU contributed indirectly to a 'standardisation' of party ideologies, as parties in the candidate countries oriented themselves towards transnational European party families. Spirova (2008) also claims that European party federations had a very direct impact on party development and their choice of electoral strategies. By contrast, an analysis of 27 post-communist countries by Armingeon and Careja (2008) finds that the EU has not been important for domestic processes, such as cabinet formation or party system structuring, in accession countries.…”

Section: Living Reviews In European Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. A small number of theoretically informed book-length studies of the EU's influence on the Central and Eastern European candidate countries have provided a generalisable conceptual framework for this research area, drawing on the debate between rationalist institutionalist and constructivist institutionalist approaches in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they also share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. At the same time, the theoretical implications of these findings appear more clear-cut than in the case of the Europeanisation of member states: rationalist institutionalism, with its focus on the external incentives underpinning EU conditionality and the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well-suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. A very recent development within this research agenda is the focus on the Europeanisation of new member states. While the study of the EU's impact during the early years of membership was hitherto primarily a subfield of analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, it has now become an extension of studies of candidate countries by analysing the impact of accession on the dynamics of pre-accession Europeanisation and how durable and distinctive the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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“…through various kinds of training and workshops), acquisition or confirmation of their legitimacy, both among domestic voters and in the international arena as well as the access to powerful Western European politicians, what plays the role of informal channel of influence in pre-membership period and gives them the opportunity to promote their countries' chances of accession. Europarties, meanwhile, aspire to strengthen their position in the new region, gain extra seats for the groups representing them in the European Parliament (EP), as well as influence the domestic policies of CEE countries if they have ruling parties in their ranks (Delsoldato 2002;Spirova 2008;von dem Berge and Poguntke 2013). According to researchers, the process of exchange has a mutual nature and is dependent on the stages of accession.…”

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Resilient or resistant? The impact of transnational party cooperation on Croatian political parties

Mikucka-Wójtowicz

2016

East European Politics

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In the literature on the Europeanisation of political parties and party systems, transnational party cooperation (TPC) is very often treated as a special and unique kind of Europeanisation of national political parties. Researchers emphasise its direct and more institutionalised character. The article investigates the impact of TPC on Croatian political parties, and tries to determine whether this cooperation has led to changes in the programmes and organisation of Croatian parties or furthered de-radicalisation of their stances. The article also explores whether party activists involved in cooperation with Europarties play an important role in the process of Europeanisation of their parent parties. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Europarties and party development in EU-candidate states: The case of Bulgaria

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics: The EU and the Development of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics: The EU and the Development of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Resilient or resistant? The impact of transnational party cooperation on Croatian political parties

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