Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
I. SYSTEMTRANSFORMATION UND ,,EUROPÄISIERUNG" by Tony J. G. Verheijen The benefits of the Internal Market and Economic and Monetary Union will remain limited without effective public administration systems in all member states. Therefore, the European Union needs convergence in administrative quality for its further development. As a reflection of this need, the Eastern enlargement has for the first time seen the explicit use of criteria related to the capacity of public administrations. The very existence of these criteria has contributed to the "unfreezing" of administrative systems many observers had deemed unreformable by the mid-1990s. The comparative analysis of the administrative transformation in Central and Eastern Europe shows that the emerging pattern of reform among new EU members is increasingly similar to the one in the EU -15. More rapid and radical reform processes are taking place in the smaller, more peripheral states, while the introduction of reforms proved to be difficult in the richer, centrally located ones. However, civil service capacity in particular remains a weak point within most Central and East European states. As participation in EU decision-making is likely to shed light on these deficits, the European institutions ought to find ways to ensure that the
Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften – de Gruyter
Published: Sep 6, 2004
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.