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From formal adoption to enforcement : post-accession shifts in EU impact on Hungary in the equality policy field
Titelübersetzung:Von formaler Annahme zur Durchsetzung : Auswirkungen des EU-Beitritts auf die Gleichstellungspolitik Ungarns
Quelle: European Integration online Papers, Special Issue, Vol. 13 (2009) Iss. 2, 18 S.
Inhalt: 
"Research on EU conditionality in equality policy in Hungary shows that while the formal EU acquis has been transposed in a fast and successful way, its enforcement and application largely lag behind. Most researchers explain this weak enforcement with factors such as state capacity problems, the absence of inclusive policy making, and low norm resonance at the domestic level. This paper analyzes how changes in EU influence in the post-accession, post-conditionality period contribute to maintaining compliance with and improving the enforcement of EU equality policy in Hungary. It aims to understand implementation processes that take place in the post-accession period through the Hungarian case of equality policy. The paper argues that in order to capture the impact of the EU in the post-accession period, one must look beyond formal transposition-related mechanisms and increasingly at financial assistance and social learning mechanisms. While mechanisms connected to formal transposition might suggest major drawbacks in formal compliance, financial assistance and social learning mechanisms seem to address more directly the application and enforcement problems that Hungary faces in the equality realm. The paper shows that these mechanisms directly and indirectly impact the most crucial factors that determine enforcement - state capacity, the strength and involvement of civil society, and norm resonance. A slow but steady move toward sustainable improvement in enforcement is indicated." (author's abstract)
"Research on EU conditionality in equality policy in Hungary shows that while the formal EU acquis has been transposed in a fast and successful way, its enforcement and application largely lag behind. Most researchers explain this weak enforcement with factors such as state capacity problems, the absence of inclusive policy making, and low norm resonance at the domestic level. This paper analyzes how changes in EU influence in the post-accession, post-conditionality period contribute to maintaining compliance with and improving the enforcement of EU equality policy in Hungary. It aims to understand implementation processes that take place in the post-accession period through the Hungarian case of equality policy. The paper argues that in order to capture the impact of the EU in the post-accession period, one must look beyond formal transposition-related mechanisms and increasingly at financial assistance and social learning mechanisms. While mechanisms connected to formal transposition might suggest major drawbacks in formal compliance, financial assistance and social learning mechanisms seem to address more directly the application and enforcement problems that Hungary faces in the equality realm. The paper shows that these mechanisms directly and indirectly impact the most crucial factors that determine enforcement - state capacity, the strength and involvement of civil society, and norm resonance. A slow but steady move toward sustainable improvement in enforcement is indicated." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Ungarn; EU; EU-Beitritt; Europäischer Strukturfonds; Gleichstellung; Politik; nationale Politik; Europapolitik; Zivilgesellschaft; Ostmitteleuropa; Auswirkung; Gleichbehandlung; Gleichberechtigung; gesetzliche Regelung; Diskriminierung; Richtlinie; Beschäftigungspolitik; Gender Mainstreaming; Rechtswesen; postsozialistisches Land; Europa
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Verfügbarkeit:http://dx.doi.org/10.1695/2009022
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Post-accession compliance with EU gender equality legislation in post-communist new member states
Titelübersetzung:Einhaltung der EU-Rechtsvorschriften zur Gleichstellung nach dem EU-Beitritt in den postkommunistischen neuen Mitgliedstaaten
Quelle: European Integration online Papers, Special Issue, Vol. 13 (2009) Iss. 2, 20 S.
Inhalt: "This paper analyses the transposition of EU legislation on gender equality at the workplace in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia, as well as the enforcement powers of their national equality institutions. It does not find significant differences between post- and pre-accession compliance. Overall compliance can be considered good in Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovenia, while it is considerably worse in the Czech Republic - both pre- and post-accession. As an explanation for these variations in legal transposition and enforcement bodies, the paper finds two equifinal paths towards correct transposition of EU gender equality legislation and strong enforcement bodies: either the absence of high adjustment costs, or the combination of strong social democratic governments and NGOs with special expertise in EU gender equality legislation." (author's abstract)
"This paper analyses the transposition of EU legislation on gender equality at the workplace in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia, as well as the enforcement powers of their national equality institutions. It does not find significant differences between post- and pre-accession compliance. Overall compliance can be considered good in Hungary, Lithuania, and Slovenia, while it is considerably worse in the Czech Republic - both pre- and post-accession. As an explanation for these variations in legal transposition and enforcement bodies, the paper finds two equifinal paths towards correct transposition of EU gender equality legislation and strong enforcement bodies: either the absence of high adjustment costs, or the combination of strong social democratic governments and NGOs with special expertise in EU gender equality legislation." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:EU; EU-Beitritt; Gleichstellung; Politik; EU-Politik; nationale Politik; Arbeitsplatz; Ungarn; Litauen; Slowenien; Tschechische Republik; Diskriminierung; Gender Mainstreaming; vergleichende Politikwissenschaft; internationaler Vergleich; Lohn; Gleichbehandlung; Parteipolitik; postsozialistisches Land; Baltikum; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Verfügbarkeit:http://dx.doi.org/10.1695/2009023
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz