ORGANIZING FOR EU IMPLEMENTATION: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES IN ESTONIA,POLAND, AND SLOVENIA |
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| Authors: | RADOSLAW ZUBEK KATARIŃA STAROŇOVÁ |
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| Institution: | 1. Radoslaw Zubek is a University Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Hertford College, Oxford, UK;2. Katarína Staroňová is a Lecturer at the Institute of Public Policy and Economy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. |
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| Abstract: | Do different levels of exposure to EU law implementation have consequences for the organization of national ministries? Previous accounts suggest that European integration has little influence on the ‘hardware’ of member state administrations. Data covering the organization of 21 ministries in Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia show the Europeanization effect to be more pronounced than might be expected. Ministries responsible for transposing many EU directives tend to institutionalize centralized oversight in legislative planning, review, and monitoring; ministries with few implementation responsibilities rarely make such adaptations. This effect holds when one controls for the impact of partisan preferences and organizational conventions. The results offer a counterpoint to the studies of old member states that find little EU effect on the organization of domestic ministries. |
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