Impaling Dracula
How EU Accession Empowered Civil Society in Romania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6407331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristina Elena Parau |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-141 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402380802509917 |
| OpenAlex | W1963498905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 44 |
Europeanisation scholars increasingly debate when and in what ways the European Union influences domestic politics. This article adopts a 'bottom-up' design and the process-tracing method to examine the influence of the EU enlargement context over the political power of the new social movements in Romania between 2000 and 2004 when the EU acquis was being negotiated. It finds that domestic civil society empowerment resulted from the nexus of three interacting causal pathways: the Executive;s desire to accede to the EU; a transnational advocacy network, which included domestic NGOs, reinforcing the Executive's anticipatory self-constraint; and to a somewhat lesser extent, the Executive's self-identification with certain elements of the advocacy network, reinforced by a general concern for their external reputation
Accession · Civil society · Context (archaeology · Economics · Empowerment · European union · Europeanisation · International trade · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resizing · Sociology · Engineering · European Union Policy and Governance · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Une Liaison Transnationale
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East Side Story
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Environmental Democratisation
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Transnational Protest and Global Activism
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Activists beyond Borders
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Social construction and integration
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
Power
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The Many Faces of Europeanization
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Winners and Losers in Europeanisation
Policy Change and Discourse in Europe
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Conclusions
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |