of EU instruments in problematic domestic environments, focusing on the case of public administration reform in Albania …. Here, the limits of EU conditionality become apparent, as Albania lacks the necessary domestic consensus and institutional …The process of EU enlargement involves conditioning, assisting, monitoring and checking a candidate country’s capacity …

This paper investigates when and how Islamic political actors support democracy, and in particular, the EU's democratic …-majority, EU applicant states, Turkey and Albania. The analysis suggests that Islamic actors endorsed democratic rules based on a … support for democracy and related EU-demanded reforms, which ultimately improved their fragile domestic power position. In …