Antoaneta Dimitrova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoaneta Dimitrova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoaneta |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimitrova |
| SIGNATURE | DIMITROVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1565-8254 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Framing international cooperation
Reforming judicial recruitment and training in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia under EU guidance
How successful is the EU at institutionalising judicial reforms in accession countries of the Western Balkans? Does its aid and assistance deliver formal compliance and sustainable institutionalisation of new rules and processes? Using a neo-institutionalist approach, we assess the extent to which new EU-supported measures introduced to improve the recruitment and training of judges and public prosecutors in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are bein…
What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement
This article examines the role of citizens’ discourses as constraints and opportunities for future enlargements. Public opinion is an increasingly important factor influencing EU’s integration capacity. When governments’ decisions on enlargement are challenged in referenda, the credibility of the EU’s promise is diminished and integration capacity is negatively affected. We take a discursive institutionalist approach that focuses on citizens’ per…
European Union enlargement and integration capacity
This contribution introduces the concept of integration capacity and summarizes our research on the European Union (EU)’s integration capacity in Eastern enlargement. Integration capacity refers to the ability of the EU to prepare non-members for membership (external integration capacity) and to preserve its functioning and cohesion once they join (internal integration capacity). In general, we find strong evidence for the EU’s external capacity …
Post‐Accession Policy‐Making in Bulgaria and Romania
This article investigates whether EU accession can help Bulgaria and Romania limit state capture and the undue influence of business actors on the policy process. Particularly vulnerable to such influence, Bulgarian and Romanian institutions are monitored through the EU's co‐operation and verification mechanism and the Commission and ECJ infringement procedures. We argue that, under certain conditions, these tools can improve the quality of democ…
Shaping Convergence with the EU in Foreign Policy and State Aid in Post-Orange Ukraine
This essay analyses convergence with EU rules in Ukraine in two policy areas—foreign and security policy and state aid regulation. Comparing the two, we find different levels of convergence, somewhat higher in foreign policy (but slowing down after 2010) than in state aid law regulation. We explain this by analysing the presence and actions of oligarchs as veto players that have had an extensive influence on policy in the Ukrainian political syst…
Research Design in European Studies
Living in Parallel Universes? Implementing European Movable Cultural Heritage Policy in B ulgaria
This article proposes an analytical model of implementation that is used to examine the implementation of the E uropean U nion's cultural heritage policy in B ulgaria. It begins by outlining a rational choice framework conceptualizing implementation as a three‐stage game with key roles for an enforcer, domestic policy‐makers and implementing actors. This model is then applied to the case of transposition and implementation of the EU rules regardi…
Constraining external governance
The question of how effective the EU's external governance is cannot be answered without looking at the broader geographical and historical framework in which the Union extends its influence. We argue that interdependence between Ukraine and Russia in several key aspects shapes the context within which the EU and Russia compete to export their policies. Based on an analysis comparing the institutional rules underpinning the EU's external governan…
The Dynamics of Domestic Coordination of EU Policy in the New Member States
Published online: 12 Nov 2007
International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe
This article focuses on the key influence of international organizations, and specifically the European Union, in the process of democratization in central and eastern European (CEE) states. It argues that the process of accession to the EU by these post-communist states undergoing regime change, including the pressure to conform to the EU's pre-membership conditions, has led to the emergence of a unique model of democracy promotion through integ…
Bulgaria
To the careful observer, of whom there have been too few, Bulgaria presents a democratization paradox. Cursory assessments by those who appear not to have studied the country in depth have often tended to be negative, consigning Bulgaria to the long-term laggard category. Such assessments are influenced by the image of the Balkans as backward. Some writers with deeper knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe have reached the same conclusion. For e…
Slovakia
From Czechoslovakia to Slovakia Slovakia's post-communist transition has followed a winding path. When still part of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, it was categorized with Poland and Hungary as on the fast track to reform. Its separation from Czechia was accompanied by the emergence of a more authoritarian government that quickly turned Slovakia into the black sheep of this Visegrad family, its route to the European Union blocked by failure t…
The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union
This article addresses the question of whether European integration leads to convergence in the domestic policies of the member states of the European Union. Some recent studies claim that as a result of European integration the national policies of the member states are becoming more alike. The existence of various exemptions and `flexibility' arrangements in the revisions of the Treaty of Rome as well as problems with implementation seem to con…
Private Interests and Public Administration
The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union
This article addresses the question of whether European integration leads to convergence in the domestic policies of the member states of the European Union. Some recent studies claim that as a result of European integration the national policies of the member states are becoming more alike. The existence of various exemptions and `flexibility' arrangements in the revisions of the Treaty of Rome as well as problems with implementation seem to con…
International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe
This article focuses on the key influence of international organizations, and specifically the European Union, in the process of democratization in central and eastern European (CEE) states. It argues that the process of accession to the EU by these post-communist states undergoing regime change, including the pressure to conform to the EU's pre-membership conditions, has led to the emergence of a unique model of democracy promotion through integ…
Constraining external governance
The question of how effective the EU's external governance is cannot be answered without looking at the broader geographical and historical framework in which the Union extends its influence. We argue that interdependence between Ukraine and Russia in several key aspects shapes the context within which the EU and Russia compete to export their policies. Based on an analysis comparing the institutional rules underpinning the EU's external governan…
The Dynamics of Domestic Coordination of EU Policy in the New Member States
Published online: 12 Nov 2007
European Union enlargement and integration capacity
This contribution introduces the concept of integration capacity and summarizes our research on the European Union (EU)’s integration capacity in Eastern enlargement. Integration capacity refers to the ability of the EU to prepare non-members for membership (external integration capacity) and to preserve its functioning and cohesion once they join (internal integration capacity). In general, we find strong evidence for the EU’s external capacity …
Post‐Accession Policy‐Making in Bulgaria and Romania
This article investigates whether EU accession can help Bulgaria and Romania limit state capture and the undue influence of business actors on the policy process. Particularly vulnerable to such influence, Bulgarian and Romanian institutions are monitored through the EU's co‐operation and verification mechanism and the Commission and ECJ infringement procedures. We argue that, under certain conditions, these tools can improve the quality of democ…
What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement
This article examines the role of citizens’ discourses as constraints and opportunities for future enlargements. Public opinion is an increasingly important factor influencing EU’s integration capacity. When governments’ decisions on enlargement are challenged in referenda, the credibility of the EU’s promise is diminished and integration capacity is negatively affected. We take a discursive institutionalist approach that focuses on citizens’ per…
Shaping Convergence with the EU in Foreign Policy and State Aid in Post-Orange Ukraine
This essay analyses convergence with EU rules in Ukraine in two policy areas—foreign and security policy and state aid regulation. Comparing the two, we find different levels of convergence, somewhat higher in foreign policy (but slowing down after 2010) than in state aid law regulation. We explain this by analysing the presence and actions of oligarchs as veto players that have had an extensive influence on policy in the Ukrainian political syst…
Living in Parallel Universes? Implementing European Movable Cultural Heritage Policy in B ulgaria
This article proposes an analytical model of implementation that is used to examine the implementation of the E uropean U nion's cultural heritage policy in B ulgaria. It begins by outlining a rational choice framework conceptualizing implementation as a three‐stage game with key roles for an enforcer, domestic policy‐makers and implementing actors. This model is then applied to the case of transposition and implementation of the EU rules regardi…
Framing international cooperation
Reforming judicial recruitment and training in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia under EU guidance
How successful is the EU at institutionalising judicial reforms in accession countries of the Western Balkans? Does its aid and assistance deliver formal compliance and sustainable institutionalisation of new rules and processes? Using a neo-institutionalist approach, we assess the extent to which new EU-supported measures introduced to improve the recruitment and training of judges and public prosecutors in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are bein…
Private Interests and Public Administration
Research Design in European Studies
Private Interests and Public Administration
The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union
This article addresses the question of whether European integration leads to convergence in the domestic policies of the member states of the European Union. Some recent studies claim that as a result of European integration the national policies of the member states are becoming more alike. The existence of various exemptions and `flexibility' arrangements in the revisions of the Treaty of Rome as well as problems with implementation seem to con…
Bulgaria
To the careful observer, of whom there have been too few, Bulgaria presents a democratization paradox. Cursory assessments by those who appear not to have studied the country in depth have often tended to be negative, consigning Bulgaria to the long-term laggard category. Such assessments are influenced by the image of the Balkans as backward. Some writers with deeper knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe have reached the same conclusion. For e…
Slovakia
From Czechoslovakia to Slovakia Slovakia's post-communist transition has followed a winding path. When still part of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, it was categorized with Poland and Hungary as on the fast track to reform. Its separation from Czechia was accompanied by the emergence of a more authoritarian government that quickly turned Slovakia into the black sheep of this Visegrad family, its route to the European Union blocked by failure t…
International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe
This article focuses on the key influence of international organizations, and specifically the European Union, in the process of democratization in central and eastern European (CEE) states. It argues that the process of accession to the EU by these post-communist states undergoing regime change, including the pressure to conform to the EU's pre-membership conditions, has led to the emergence of a unique model of democracy promotion through integ…
The Dynamics of Domestic Coordination of EU Policy in the New Member States
Published online: 12 Nov 2007
Constraining external governance
The question of how effective the EU's external governance is cannot be answered without looking at the broader geographical and historical framework in which the Union extends its influence. We argue that interdependence between Ukraine and Russia in several key aspects shapes the context within which the EU and Russia compete to export their policies. Based on an analysis comparing the institutional rules underpinning the EU's external governan…
Shaping Convergence with the EU in Foreign Policy and State Aid in Post-Orange Ukraine
This essay analyses convergence with EU rules in Ukraine in two policy areas—foreign and security policy and state aid regulation. Comparing the two, we find different levels of convergence, somewhat higher in foreign policy (but slowing down after 2010) than in state aid law regulation. We explain this by analysing the presence and actions of oligarchs as veto players that have had an extensive influence on policy in the Ukrainian political syst…
Research Design in European Studies
Living in Parallel Universes? Implementing European Movable Cultural Heritage Policy in B ulgaria
This article proposes an analytical model of implementation that is used to examine the implementation of the E uropean U nion's cultural heritage policy in B ulgaria. It begins by outlining a rational choice framework conceptualizing implementation as a three‐stage game with key roles for an enforcer, domestic policy‐makers and implementing actors. This model is then applied to the case of transposition and implementation of the EU rules regardi…
Post‐Accession Policy‐Making in Bulgaria and Romania
This article investigates whether EU accession can help Bulgaria and Romania limit state capture and the undue influence of business actors on the policy process. Particularly vulnerable to such influence, Bulgarian and Romanian institutions are monitored through the EU's co‐operation and verification mechanism and the Commission and ECJ infringement procedures. We argue that, under certain conditions, these tools can improve the quality of democ…
What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement
This article examines the role of citizens’ discourses as constraints and opportunities for future enlargements. Public opinion is an increasingly important factor influencing EU’s integration capacity. When governments’ decisions on enlargement are challenged in referenda, the credibility of the EU’s promise is diminished and integration capacity is negatively affected. We take a discursive institutionalist approach that focuses on citizens’ per…
European Union enlargement and integration capacity
This contribution introduces the concept of integration capacity and summarizes our research on the European Union (EU)’s integration capacity in Eastern enlargement. Integration capacity refers to the ability of the EU to prepare non-members for membership (external integration capacity) and to preserve its functioning and cohesion once they join (internal integration capacity). In general, we find strong evidence for the EU’s external capacity …
Reforming judicial recruitment and training in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia under EU guidance
How successful is the EU at institutionalising judicial reforms in accession countries of the Western Balkans? Does its aid and assistance deliver formal compliance and sustainable institutionalisation of new rules and processes? Using a neo-institutionalist approach, we assess the extent to which new EU-supported measures introduced to improve the recruitment and training of judges and public prosecutors in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are bein…
Framing international cooperation
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · European union (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · International trade (8 works) · Sociology (7 works)