GRABBE, Heather <br/><br/>
How does Europeanization affect CEE governance? Conditionality, diffusion and diversity 

 -  December 2001 
<br/><br/> The EU influences the development of governance in central an eastern Europe through its acession process in ways that go well beyond its official competences in the current member states. However, the EU`s impact is diffused by the complexity of actor constellations involved. Moreover, it lacks the comprehensive institutional templates that would be needed to shape political istitutions into a identifiably "EU"mould. Instead, EU influence interacts with other pressures, both external and internal, becoming woven in to domestic debates about institutional change. Accession conditions and negotiations privilege a relatively small group of central government officials over other political actors. The lack of  involviment o parliamentarians and wider society in the acession process could, in turn, exacerbate the EU`s own democratic deficit after enlargement