Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries1

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Corruption and Trust in the European Union and National Institutions: Changes over the Great Recession across European States

“…This study, however, also pays attention to the importance of public opinion of states neighbouring the EU to account for existing research on the EU's impact on democratization, society, institutional development and even on freedom of mass media beyond the EU's Member States (Gawrich et al, 2010;Lankina et al, 2016b;Obydenkova, 2008Obydenkova, , 2012Schweickert et al, 2011). Here, the impact of national corruption on public opinion about 'distant' institutions might be ambiguous due to the influence of autocratic external factors and, more importantly, the role of historical legacies (Lankina et al, 2016a;Obydenkova, 2014, 2015;Obydenkova and Libman, 2012).…”

Impact of European Integration on Institutional Development

“…Their results suggest that an external anchor, such as EU accession, can break the path dependence of institutional change to some extent. Using a Hausman-Taylor model, Schweickert et al (2011) identify a positive link between institutional development and the pre-accession incentives provided by the EU and NATO. Mattli and Plümper (2004) estimate that applying to the EU accounts for approximately 40% of variance in regulatory quality between transition countries.…”

Determinants of the labour market institutions in post-socialist economies

“…Moreover, the scale of the social protection significantly decreased at the beginning of the transition process since the state-owned companies had to reduce the scale of 6 Although, an attempt to apply the conclusions derived for highly-derived countries to post-socialist economies is not free from controversies, it was undertaken, because one of the crucial elements of the transition process was to introduce such rules of the market economy that were present in the highly-developed countries (Kornai, 2006;Pią tek et al, 2013). Moreover, many empirical analyses (Grzymala-Busse and Innes, 2003;Schweickert et al, 2011;Staehr, 2011) indicate that one of the main determinants of institutional changes in CEE and many SEE countries was the desire to adapt the institutional framework to the EU standards in order to fulfil the accession criteria.…”