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A Theoretical Approach towards EU Democracy Promotion and
Conditionality Theorizing External Factors of Democratisation
Additionally, if one would like to track the development trajectories of this research agenda, it is apparent that together with the 'big' enlargement (2004),
conditionality as a concept became an important part of the scope of Europeanization (4).
To encourage them to adopt its constitutional principles and sectoral policies and adapt their domestic institutions, policies, and political processes accordingly, the EU has developed a sophisticated tool box that heavily draws on "reinforcement by reward" (positive
conditionality) and "reinforcement by support" (capacity-building) (Schimmelfennig et al.
The ESM -- as the stabilisation body came to be known -- had decided in principle to provide such assistance to Cyprus in the sum of e1/417 billion and what remained was to negotiate the
conditionality -- the macro economic reforms Cyprus was going to undertake in return for receiving assistance.
He said: "I support the principle of
conditionality as a way of encouraging active participation.
Therefore, rule adoption of the candidate country depends on the capacity of actors to exploit the opportunities and external incentives provided by the EU through the
conditionality principle.
Now analysts can use the
Conditionality web application to write qualitative investment research as a Scenario Graph, which is similar to Facebook's Social Graph that links friends, as it links scenarios for issues in investors' research, enabling them to decision-tree a single investment or a portfolio of investments.
Moreover, any
conditionality that follows ESM assistance would most likely be focused on the banking sector rather than intrusive budgetary
conditionality on the sovereign.
With the EU integration of the Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) in the 1990s the theoretical frameworks of the EU
conditionality were based on the social action of this region.
Macroeconomic
conditionality, which ties Structural Fund aid to good economic governance, will apply to all funds and may result in a suspension of commitments and payments.
While Dr Usul's book offers a useful summary of the literature on the role of external actors on democratisation in general, and the emerging policies of the EU in creating democratic
conditionality for candidate states, his coverage of the Turkish experience adds little to the existing body of literature, and is out of date.
