This article explores how practice theory can be recruited for the study of European
integration. New generations of EU researchers are fascinated by the prospect of leaving the …

Democratization studies became a sub-field of political science/international relations only
very gradually. Despite the rich pool of data generated by the early 'third wave'transitions in …

prescriptions becomes weaker. Last but not least, the more distant countries and regions are
from Europe, the less significant efforts by the EU become to directly influence institutional …

This article analyzes the E uropean U nion's reactions to breaches of liberal democratic
practices in H ungary and R omania during 2012–13 in order to assess its capacity to lock in …

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's
foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and …

ABSTRACT The External Incentives Model (EIM) was designed to explain the
Europeanization of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) through the EU's …

In this paper, we report the results of a meta-analysis of 670 estimates extracted from 53
previous research works to estimate the gender wage gap in European emerging markets. A …

EU enlargement continues in the W estern B alkans in the 2010s because the underlying
dynamics remain largely unchanged: EU Member States still see enlargement as a matter of …

The articles in this special issue find ample evidence for the EU's influence on domestic and
regional institutions. Its impact is patchy, often shallow but certainly not spurious. This …

This article investigates the most important determinants of domestic institutional change in
combating corruption and reforming the judiciary in Bulgaria and Romania since EU …