Download or read book The Effectiveness and Limits of EU Conditionality written by Lenka Fedorová and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines domestic policies in Slovakia from the collapse of communism in 1989 until its EU accession in 2004. It traces policy changes in Slovak healthcare, regional policy, agriculture, and minority protection, and it assesses the capacity of domestic political actors and external agents to shape the policy arrangements and institutional environment in a democratizing state aspiring to join the EU. The study addresses the issues of democratic transition and consolidation in EU candidate states, evaluates the effectiveness and limits of EU conditionality in the respective policy domains, and contributes to current debates on democratization, Europeanization, and policy transfer. (Series: Europaisierung - Beitrage zur transnationalen und transkulturellen Europadebatte - Vol. 8)