Author: Ram Melanie H.
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0039-3606
Source: Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol.38, Iss.2, 2003-07, pp. : 28-56
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Abstract
While scholars have tended to focus on domestic factors as most critical to the consolidation of democracy, the post-communist European Union (EU) candidate states have exhibited a unique confluence of domestic and foreign policies, due to their objective of EU membership. This article assesses and compares the impact of the EU on policy making in two diverse candidate states in their first decade of transition, focusing on minority rights protection as a fundamental requirement of both EU membership and a stable democracy.I find that the EU has played a principal role in the reform process and democratic consolidation of candidate states, even in the controversial field of minority rights. The degree and nature of the EU's impact, however, has depended in part on the activism of the particular minority, EU interest and pressure, EU Member States' own domestic policies, and the persistence of racism in society.
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