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EU and NATO-related agreements are an important reason why emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been better reformers despite their socialistic heritage. RCAs are a main factor why African economies are still doing very poorly in terms of institutional reforms. I show that the construction of the RCA and the willingness delegate sovereignty is behind the effect on institutions and is an important.\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","jelcode":[77,78,79,80,81],"keyword":[82,83,84],"class_list":["post-1016","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","jelcode-f53","jelcode-f55","jelcode-h11","jelcode-o11","jelcode-o19","keyword-economic-institutions","keyword-reforms","keyword-regional-cooperation"],"acf":{"year":2015,"month":7,"day":"","volume":"","number":"157","pages":47,"reviewed":"0","citeid":"FIW_WP_157","fiwseries":"FIW Working Papers","event":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Regional Integration and the Rule of Law - FIW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/en\/publications\/regional-integration-and-the-rule-of-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Regional Integration and the Rule of Law - FIW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This paper constructs agreement specific instruments in order to estimate the effect of membership in a regional cooperation agreement (RCA) on institutional change. 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