However, convergence with the bureaucracies of other EU member-states is an open question.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• ‘Differentiation by design’ as a determinant of convergence: comparing early EU selection policies in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (2008) · doi

  This article seeks external determinants of patterns of convergence or non‐convergence in EU’s periphery by considering the selection strategies of the EU for the inclusion of various countries in different sets of policies as a powerful and understudied driver of convergence.

  Keywords: convergence article seeks external determinants patterns periphery considering selection strategies inclusion various countries different sets
• Convergence in the EU (2013) · doi

  The EU has long viewed economic and institutional convergence as important goals, but the results thus far have been decidedly mixed, and there remain several open questions: How exactly should convergence be defined? How much convergence is necessary? What steps can be taken to improve convergence in the EU, and how can success be defined? Finally, how much convergence

  Keywords: convergence defined long viewed economic institutional important goals thus decidedly mixed there remain several open
• Southern European Public Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective (2004) · doi

  However, convergence with the bureaucracies of other EU member-states is an open question.

  Keywords: convergence bureaucracies member states open question