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The role of the EU in promoting good governance in Macedonia: towards efficiency and effectiveness or deliberative democracy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marija Risteska
Marija Risteska*
Affiliation:
CRPM, Skopje, Macedonia
*
∗Email: risteska@crpm.org.mk
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Abstract

Good governance has been used as a development tool by international organizations and the European Union (hereinafter: EU) which has included it in cooperation agreements and promotes it within its Enlargement Policy. This paper analyzes the good governance approach in the EU's relations with Macedonia and its effects on the country's democratic policy making. The analysis shows that the Europeanization of Macedonia has an impact on the democratic processes in the country with sub-optimal results as its technocratic approach in assessing the country's readiness for EU membership has proved to be detrimental for the deliberative democratic processes. The intensive pressure for effectiveness and efficiency results in finding short cuts in rule transfer through copying and pasting legislation from member states and limiting the democratic policy making to political deliberation rather than to wide policy consultations between state and non-state actors.

Keywords

Europeanizationgood governanceeffectivenessefficiencydeliberative decision makingMacedonia
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Europeanization, State-Building and Democratization in the Western Balkans , May 2013 , pp. 431 - 446
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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