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Cherry Picking EU Conditionality: Selective Compliance in Georgia’s Hybrid Regime

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This article investigates the rationale behind compliance and non-compliance with EU conditionality in Georgia’s hybrid regime. Following the literature on competitive authoritarianism, it argues that the survival strategies of hybrid regime incumbents compel them to dodge conditionality in those policy areas that are crucial for maintaining the uneven political playing field. On the other hand, specific self-preservation tactics dictate that they should embrace neighbourhood Europeanisation in policy domains capable of generating votes. Taken together, these hypotheses alert us to the possibility that hybrid regime governments in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries are cherry picking conditionality.

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  • Ketevan Bolkvadze, 2016. "Cherry Picking EU Conditionality: Selective Compliance in Georgia’s Hybrid Regime," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(3), pages 409-440, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:3:p:409-440
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1154138
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    1. Julia Langbein, 2011. "Organizing Regulatory Convergence Outside the EU. Setting Policy-Specific Conditionality and Building Domestic Capacities," KFG Working Papers p0033, Free University Berlin.
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