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A CASE OF PARTIAL CONVERGENCE: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Author(s) -
MEYERSAHLING JANHINRIK,
VAN STOLK CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/padm.12122
Subject(s) - convergence (economics) , scope (computer science) , central government , civil servants , government (linguistics) , political science , economic system , public administration , work (physics) , civil society , local government , political economy , economic growth , economics , law , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , politics , computer science , programming language
This article compares the Europeanization of central government in four Central and Eastern European countries ( CEECs ): Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia. Using a large N survey of ministerial civil servants, it finds that the Europeanization of central government is characterized by partial convergence. The scope of Europeanization is large and similar among CEECs , reaching widely and deeply into government ministries. Moreover, patterns of Europeanization are similar among CEECs : the same ministries form the ‘inner core’ and ‘outer circle’ of Europeanized ministries; only a small proportion of civil servants work full‐time on EU issues and routinely engage in activities that ‘project’ national policies at EU level. Compared to old member states, patterns of Europeanization show signs of convergence, while the scope of Europeanization is larger in CEECs .