THE IMPACT OF EU ACCESSION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITIES IN THE STATES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. SIMILAR DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA?

The developments of the civil service and administrative reform in Central and Easter European countries and in Russia are more or less similar. For the Central and Eastern European countries explicitly EU Membership is mentioned as an incentive for reform, the accession criteria have even been enlarged with horizontal administrative capacities, whereas for Russia there are no explicit references to incentives for reform.