EU:s utvidgningspolitik och deras påverkan på demokratiska refomer i kandidatländer : En fallstudie av Serbien

Sammanfattning: This study is a qualitative case study which aims to examine how the European Union enlargement politics might affect democratic reforms in Serbia which is a candidate country to the union. To achieve this, two questions were used: 1. How has the EU used normative power to get Serbia to implement democratic reforms and therefore improve their democratic status? 2. Has the EU succeeded, or failed, in getting Serbia to improve democratic reforms? The theoretical framework the study is based on is Ian Manners theory about normative power. Manners emphasized six strategies on how norms and values that the EU maintains are spread. The study uses documents and reports from the European Unions, as well as Freedom House, V-Dem, Transparency International and The World Justice Project. The conclusions that can be drawn from the study is that the EU uses different strategies to get Serbia to implement reforms to improve their democratic status. Despite this, Serbia has completed limited reforms and therefore the conclusion is that EU use of normative power has only been partially successful.