THEORIES OF DEMOCRATIZATION: LOCATING EU CONDITIONALITY IN THE BIGGER THEORETICAL PICTURE
Keywords:
EU conditionality, EU enlargements, democratization, Europeanization, linkage and leverageAbstract
One of the primary goals of the European Union’s membership conditionality is to promote stability and democracy outside its immediate borders. Thus, being subjected to EU conditionality can be a factor affecting democratization processes in candidate countries. The article attempts to locate the study of EU-induced democratization within the bigger theoretical picture of democratization studies. This article starts with a discussion of different theories and approaches to the study of democratization, including the theory of norm diffusion (Risse, 1999) and the theory of linkage/leverage (Levitsky and Way, 2002). After indicating how the study of EU-induced democratization can be and has been approached within those theories, and the article proceeds with an outline and analysis of a rather new approach utilizing an External Incentives Model (Schimmelfennig, 2003), which stemmed from the growing body of free-standing research dedicated specifically to the problem of Europeanization. Thus, the article demonstrates that the study of Europeanization of candidate countries not only invited the application of pre-existing theoretical frameworks from different subdisciplines but also produced a new theoretical framework dedicated specifically to the study of Europeanization. DOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2020-3-114-121References
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