Інституційна ефективність у контексті євроінтеграційних перспектив України. Стаття перша. Інституційна ефективність у країнах Європейського Союзу

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of institutional efficiency in EU countries based on the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) methodology implemented by the World Bank. The segmentation of the European institutional space is shown, and it is proved that the differentiation of the institutional efficiency of the European countries is the result of the historical features of the institutional architecture of the EU, which implies socio-institutional eclecticism that ensures the inclusiveness of the institutional environment. The peculiarities of the institutional development of the leading countries are characterized and it is shown that they maintain their status over long periods of time, external dependence on global fluctuations and growing uncertainty. It is revealed that as the pan-European space expands, the indicators of the institutional efficiency of countries tend to decrease, on which basis assumptions are made about the limits of the positive expansion of the pan-European economic and socio-institutional space. The author founds that most EU countries reached the maximum of institutional efficiency in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while for many countries it was 2004-2005, the years of the penultimate pre-crisis stage of integration, with maximum expectations and maximum synergy. It has been proven that integration into the EU is not necessarily a factor in the growth of institutional efficiency, since countries with strong institutions preserve and increase their quality, while those with weak institutions do not show such a tendency. The institutional features of Ukraine’s European integration are revealed as the joining of a country with weak institutions in the downward phase of institutional dynamics to a historically institutionally segmented, and currently institutionally unbalanced integration association.