Normative Emulation and the Diffusion of Institutional Frameworks from the European Union to the African Union

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politikon Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/02589346.2022.2103332

G. Nubong

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT The European and African experiences of integration have followed different historical trajectories. However, Africa’s approach to regionalism seems to be dominated by European conceptions in two areas: political and institutional. From an institutional perspective, a number of European Union and African Union institutions bare certain similarities. Do these institutional similarities represent traceable evidence of the diffusion of regional integration from the European Union to the African Union? This article answers this question using a process tracing methodology within a policy transfer and diffusion framework. It tests for evidence of diffusion haven occurred through conditionalities (incentives) offered from EU support for Africa’s continental integration as well as for lesson drawing and emulation by the AU. It finds no traceable evidence of diffusion from the EU to the OAU/AU between 1963 to 2003 and concludes that normative emulation is the most probable cause of the institutional similarities between the EU and AU.

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规范性模仿与制度框架从欧洲联盟向非洲联盟的扩散

摘要欧洲和非洲的一体化经历遵循着不同的历史轨迹。然而，非洲对区域主义的态度似乎在两个领域受到欧洲观念的支配：政治和体制。从体制角度来看，欧洲联盟和非洲联盟的一些机构有某些相似之处。这些制度上的相似之处是否代表了区域一体化从欧洲联盟向非洲联盟扩散的可追溯证据？本文使用政策转移和扩散框架内的过程跟踪方法回答了这个问题。它通过欧盟对非洲大陆一体化的支持以及非盟的借鉴和效仿来测试扩散的证据。它没有发现1963年至2003年间从欧盟扩散到非统组织/非盟的可追溯证据，并得出结论，规范模仿是欧盟和非盟之间制度相似的最可能原因。

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Politikon POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.90

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32 weeks

期刊介绍： Politikon focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world" leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa"s leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa"s constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999.