European Public Policy

Understanding EU influence and its impact on CEE policies and policymaking processes pre- and post-enlargement is a crosscutting theme in several current and past projects of the center. Research has primarily concerned the impact of financial incentives and social learning driven EU mechanisms, among them as EU structural funds spending, or different employment and social inclusion related policy mechanisms. Some research at the center focuses on Europeanization in policy realms that are outside the core competencies of the EU and on determining differences in Europeanization patterns between those and core EU fields. Other projects have looked at EU impact beyond EU member-states. Approaches used for analysis range from in-depth country studies, to larger comparative studies using qualitative analysis methods such as frame analysis of policy debates, or more quantitative political economy analysis.

Past projects

• All Rights Reserved? Barriers towards European CITIZENship (BEUCITIZEN)
• Comparative Evaluation of the Special pre-Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (SAPARD)
• Derangement or Development? Political Economy of EU Structural Funds Allocation: Insights from the Hungarian Case
• Eastern Enlargement - Western Enlargement: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society After the Accession (DIOSCURI) 
• Enhancing the EU's Transboundary Crisis Management Capacities: Strategies for Multi-Level Leadership (TransCrisis)
• EU Disability Discrimination
• European Coalition for Community Living (ECCL)
• Evaluation of the LEADER+ Program 2000-06
• Feasibility Study for Consular and Visa Cooperation Among the Visegrad States for Residents of Ukraine and Moldova
• GARNET Network of Excellence: Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU
• Integration and International Migration: Pathways and Integration Policies (INTEGRIM)
• Monitoring EU Structural Funds Expenditure in the Member States
• Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the New Member States: Trade Regimes, the Private Sector and the Civil Society as Development Actors
• Policy Frames and Implementation Problems: the Case of Gender Mainstreaming (MAGEEQ)
• Political intersectionality in Central and Eastern Europe
• Quality in Gender+  Equality Policies (QUING)
• Return to Europe – V4 Countries 20 Years After
• Roma Migration to and from Canada. Experiences of Hungarian, Slovak and Czech Roma Returnees
• Success or Failure? Explaining Policy Outcomes by Comparing Actors and Processes in Making Domestic Violence Policies in East and Central Europe
• The Challenge of Socio-economic Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union (SOCCOH)
• The European Future of Turkey and Ukraine
• The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identification (COHESIFY)
• Understanding Nascent Capitalism in Eastern Europe (CAPITO)

Contact person: Agnes Batory