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Transposition of EU social policy in the new member states

Dimiter Toshkov

Leiden University, The Netherlands, DToshkov{at}fsw.LeidenUniv.nl

This article analyses transposition of European Union (EU) social policy legislation in the new member states (NMS) from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In order to account for the varying rate of adoption of EU law at the national level the article develops several hypotheses about the impact of government preferences and administrative capacity on the pace of transposition in the social policy field. The hypotheses are tested on a new dataset comprising data on the transposition of EU social policy directives in the new member states. The results of the quantitative empirical analysis show that government support for European integration and administrative effectiveness has positive and substantial effects on the number of directives transposed in a given period of time. However, government positions on the Left—Right and libertarianism—traditionalism dimensions do not affect the adoption of EU social policy legislation in CEE.

Key Words: Central and Eastern Europe • EU enlargement • EU social policy • implementation • transposition

Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 17, No. 4, 335-348 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0958928707081065
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