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Beyond the Rhetorics of Compliance

Judicial Reform in Romania

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Anitta M. Hipper

    1. Avenue Adolphe Lacomblé 52 (Box 5), Schaerbeek-Brussels, Belgium

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-16
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Focus of the research and core questions

      • Anitta M. Hipper
      Pages 19-22

  3. Conceptualizing the rule of law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Defining the rule of law

      • Anitta M. Hipper
      Pages 25-40

  4. Explaining the transformative power of the EU

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-42
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    2. Beyond bridging rationalist and constructivist mechanisms of change

      • Anitta M. Hipper
      Pages 43-64

  5. Research design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Achilles heel: causality, generalization and representativeness

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      Pages 67-80

  6. Main features of the Romanian communist regime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Securitatea as an instrument of terror

      • Anitta M. Hipper
      Pages 83-89

  7. Partial compliance (1993-2000)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Veto players and stakes: Maintaining power at all costs (1993-1996)

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      Pages 93-124

  8. Partial compliance (2000-2004)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Reinvented elites and stakes: The fusion between politics and business

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      Pages 127-156

  9. Compliance and domestic transformation (2004-2007)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Veto players: The center-right coalition challenges the socialist-democrats

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      Pages 159-189

  10. Non-compliance: A final investigation 2007-2012

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Veto-players and stakes

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      Pages 193-226

  11. Conclusions

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      Pages 227-227
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About this book

Anitta M. Hipper examines to what extent and under what conditions the EU's transformative power met with resistance in Romania. The book touches upon a raw nerve for most post-communist societies: justice and anti-corruption reform. Through the use of a context-sensitive approach, it assesses how domestic factors influenced the implementation of EU conditionality towards Romania from 1990 to 2012. Empirical investigations reveal a struggle between various interested parties in complying with EU conditionality. As a result, a complex layer of (non-)compliance emerged and it became a Herculean task to ensure the sustainability of reform by reformist forces within Romania and the EU.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Avenue Adolphe Lacomblé 52 (Box 5), Schaerbeek-Brussels, Belgium

    Anitta M. Hipper

About the author

Anitta M. Hipper has been trained as a scholar at the University of Freiburg/Germany, where she completed her Ph.D. After completing this book, she worked for the European Parliament and the European Commission, where she is currently responsible inter alia for leading assessment missions, mainly in the anti-corruption, justice and law enforcement area in Ukraine and Georgia.

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