ENP and sector parliamentarization in Eastern ENP countries - unpacking polity and politics effects

In EU’s engagement with (semi-)authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, the European Neighbour-hood Policy (ENP) is an important tool in order to pursue (democratic) norm compliance as well as policy compliance in various fields of the EU’s aquis communautaire. This paper goes beyond these issues and asks about potentials of sector parliamentarization through ENP cooperation. So this paper brings in the polity dimension and analyses the potentials of polity europeanization between primarily parliamentary polities in EU and primarily (semi-)presidential systems among Eastern ENP countries. For analyzing sector parliamentarization through ENP cooperation, this paper uses a qualitative small-n-design, looking at Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.