Abstract This article analyzes the dismantling of Specialized Meeting on Family Farming (Reaf), a Mercosur forum responsible for proposing public policies family farming. By means dialogue with historical institutionalism, cognitive approach, and policy characterizes predominant type explains its driving forces. Data were collected through analysis official documents, observation national regio...

Abstract Using historical institutionalism as a theoretical foundation, this paper explores whether multilateral surveillance and policy coordination under the European Semester (ES), introduced in aftermath of global financial crisis 2007–2008, was based on path-changing or path-dependent mechanism. Following legal-historical analysis going back to Maastricht Treaty, we demonstrate that ES its...

The aim of the article is to present authors’ assessment effectiveness anti-corruption policy in Latvia, establish compliance national strategies with EU goals terms preventing and combating corruption. research methods at confirming a hypothesis that order deepen reforms strengthen resilience fight against corruption, it not enough for Latvia conduct only institutional reforms, but important p...