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Source: European Communities, Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans , 2005

‘Pre-accession assistance as a mechanism of Europeanisation: the effects of CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia’. Eleftherios Antonopoulos PhD student, UACES scholar, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde.

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Source: European Communities, Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans , 2005

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  1. ‘Pre-accession assistance as a mechanism of Europeanisation: the effects of CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia’ Eleftherios AntonopoulosPhD student, UACES scholar, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde

  2. Source: European Communities, Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans, 2005

  3. Europeanisation • What is Europeanisation? • The domestic impact of Europe • A two way (top-down, bottom-up) process (Börzel 2002). Other definitions (Risse 2001; Radaelli 2003; Bache 2008). • Does Europeanisation theory apply in the following cases: • Public Administration (Olsen 2003; Trondal 2007; Knill 2004; Goetz 2001; Esmark 2008) • Enlargement, CEECs Western Balkans and Croatia (Schimmelfenig, Sedelmeier, Dimitrova) • Pre-accession financial assistance (Grabbe 2003; Hughes, Sasse and Gordon 2005)

  4. Europeanisation and domestic change Source: Caporaso (in Vink and Graziano 2008:28)

  5. Europeanisation’s influence on administrative capacity • Administrative capacity (Dimitrova 2002) • Absorption capacity (Molle 2007: 196; Hughes, Sasse, Gordon 2005:23) • Administrative absorption capacity (ibid.) • Sectoral, horizontal, capacity to implement the acquis. • Disaggregation for measurement • Structures • Human and financial resources • Systems and tools (based on NEI/ECORYS 2002)

  6. Research design • Qualitative desk research and fieldwork with use of available quantitative data for triangulation. • Case study: Croatia (time and budget constraints, first in the queue for membership) • 30 Semi-structured interviews with policy-makers, academics and consultants. • Convenience sampling, snowball-chain referral sampling. • Process tracing: post 2000 EU-WB and EU-Croatia relations, strategy, policy, programme, project, documents, regulations, laws, evaluation reports (EU & Croatian documents) and interview transcripts. • Budget: UACES fieldwork grant 2009

  7. Assessing administrative capacity building under CARDS/PHARE/IPA

  8. CARDS allocations to Croatia [1]The table is available online at http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/how-does-it-work/financial-assistance/cards/statistics2000-2006_en.htm#1

  9. CARDS allocations to Croatia

  10. IPA allocations to Croatia Source: DG Enlargement website http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/candidate-countries/croatia/financial-assistance/index_en.htm

  11. CARDS Structures

  12. IPA Structures Source: European Funds for Croatian Projects. A handbook on Financial Cooperation and European Union Supported programmes in Croatia, CODEF, Zagreb 2009.

  13. Summary & Conclusion • Conceptual issues of Europeanisation and administrative capacity. • Research methodology and design. • The cases of CARDS and IPA in Croatia • Some early results based on the fieldwork, show a differentiated, mixed picture of Europeanisation in the fields of Pre-accession assistance and preparation for Cohesion Policy.

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