Beyond the Rhetorics of Compliance

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2. Introduction

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   2. Focus of the research and core questions

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3. Conceptualizing the rule of law

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   2. Defining the rule of law

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4. Explaining the transformative power of the EU

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   2. Beyond bridging rationalist and constructivist mechanisms of change

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5. Research design

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   2. Achilles heel: causality, generalization and representativeness

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6. Main features of the Romanian communist regime

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   2. Securitatea as an instrument of terror

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7. Partial compliance (1993-2000)

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

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8. Partial compliance (2000-2004)

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

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9. Compliance and domestic transformation (2004-2007)

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

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

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    2. Veto-players and stakes

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11. Conclusions

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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.

• Corruption
• European Union
• Europeanization
• Romania
• Rule of law

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  Anitta M. Hipper

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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