Open AccessEmbracing European Law
Author(s) -
Dimiter Toshkov
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european union politics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.241
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1741-2757
pISSN - 1465-1165
DOI - 10.1177/1465116508093490
Subject(s) - legislation , accession , conditionality , european union , political science , politics , resizing , government (linguistics) , sample (material) , transposition (logic) , law , international trade , business , chemistry , chromatography , philosophy , linguistics
International audienceAccession to the European Union (EU) demands the adoption of a vast body of legislation. This paper analyses compliance with EU directives in eight post-communist countries during the Eastern enlargement and tries to account for the puzzling embrace of EU law in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a new data set tracking the transposition of a sample of 119 directives, the paper finds effects of both political preferences and government capacity on the likelihood of timely transposition. Furthermore, important sectoral differences are uncovered, with trade-related legislation having a better chance and environmental legislation having a significantly worse chance of being incorporated into national legal systems on time. Beyond the conditionality of the accession process, the paper unveils a complex causal structure behind the ups and downs in transposition performance
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