Tom Gallagher – “Romania and the European Union – How the Weak Vanquished the Strong” Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Tom Gallagher – “Romania and the European Union – How the Weak Vanquished the Strong” Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

by Sinziana - Elena Poiana,

“Spare no one!” – seems to yell between the lines one of Tom Gallagher’s most recent books. Written in 2008 and published one year later, “Romania and the European Union – How the Weak Vanquished the Strong” is undesirably relevant for 2010’s Romania. Skilful national politics managed to drive an underprepared Eastern country into the EU counting on its blind eye: the rule of law and anti-corruption regulation. How? What did allow for that to happen? What did this situation lead to ultimately? The author discusses all these issues and more throughout the more than 250 pages of the book.

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Vol 10 – No 1 – 2010 // Governance After the Crisis

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Governance After the Crisis

The global financial and economic crisis has taken its toll on national politics. Ranging from doubts over the legitimacy of capitalism in the West to the (re)election of socialist leaders and military coups in some parts of the South and conflict escalation all across the Middle East and South Asia, the effects of the recent... »

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Non-partisan Local Actors As The Element Of Absorbed Local Democracy?

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International and Domestic Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons for Ukraine

The paper looks into the main successes and failures in policy responses to the financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe at global, EU and domestic levels. The paper argues that despite the failure to prevent the crisis at all levels, coordination of regulatory actions at global and EU levels and high discipline of the... »

Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights

In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing marginal returns in attracting FDI inflows. I empirically prove this proposition by... »

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European Rules as ‘Law of the Land’? Towards Optimalisation of EU Member State Compliance

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Tom Gallagher – “Romania and the European Union – How the Weak Vanquished the Strong” Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (chair) Hertie School of Governance
Larry Diamond Stanford University
Tom Gallagher University of Bradford
Alena Ledeneva University College London
Michael McFaul Stanford University
Dennis Deletant Georgetown University
Helen Wallace London School of Economics and Political Science

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Claudiu Tufiș
Bogdan Iancu
George Jiglau
Ingi Iusmen
Gabriel Bădescu
Andrei Macsut
Laura Voinea

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