A Core Executive Model

Abstract

This chapter argues that EU rule adoption was likely to have been perceived by Central European cabinets as a project that brought mainly nonexclusive collective benefits and required cooperation by many departments. It shows that, in such conditions, cabinet ministers and their staff will have had limited incentives to engage in rule adoption. The chapter hypothesizes that such collective dilemmas may be solved by incentives and monitoring extended by domestic core executives to individual ministers and departments.