Policy-specific effects of transgovernmental cooperation: a statistical assessment across the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours

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Table 1. Impact of Transgovernmental Networks on States’ Practices.

	Model 1 Human Rights (t-2)	Model 1b Human Rights (t-2)	Model 2 Public admin. (t-1)	Model 2b Public admin. (t-1)	Model 3 Human Rights (t-2)	Model 4 Public admin. (t-1)
Human rights cooperation	0.003**	0.004**			0.003
	(0.00)	(0.00)			(0.00)
Pub. admin. cooperation			0.005**	0.002**		0.009*
			(0.00)	(0.00)		(0.00)
HR network * memb. aspir.					−0.003
					(0.00)
PA network * memb. aspir.						−0.005
						(0.00)
Financial assistance	−0.047	−0.080	−0.012	−0.005	−0.048	0.046
	(0.06)	(0.11)	(0.08)	(0.03)	(0.06)	(0.08)
Lag dep. variable (CIRI)	0.301***	0.301***			0.287**
	(0.09)	(0.09)			(0.10)
Past practices (CIRI)	0.182**	0.182**			0.180**
	(0.06)	(0.06)			(0.06)
Lag dep. variable (gov.ef.)			0.534***	0.534***		0.555***
			(0.06)	(0.06)		(0.06)
Past practices (gov.ef.)			0.063	0.063		0.065
			(0.07)	(0.07)		(0.07)
GDP per capita (log)	−0.115	−0.194	0.073	0.031	−0.150	0.032
	(0.11)	(0.19)	(0.09)	(0.04)	(0.12)	(0.13)
Population (log)	−0.736	−1.235	−0.117	−0.050	−0.561	−0.147
	(1.40)	(2.35)	(0.76)	(0.32)	(1.43)	(0.79)
International wars	−0.401	−0.674	0.041	0.018	−0.486	0.042
	(0.40)	(0.67)	(0.07)	(0.03)	(0.44)	(0.06)
Civil wars	−0.462***	−0.776***	−0.142**	−0.060**	−0.420***	−0.166***
	(0.12)	(0.20)	(0.06)	(0.02)	(0.10)	(0.04)
Democracy	0.023	0.039	0.006	0.003	0.016	0.007
	(0.03)	(0.05)	(0.01)	(0.00)	(0.03)	(0.01)
Sanctions and threat	0.150*	0.252*	0.063***	0.027***		0.057***
	(0.08)	(0.14)	(0.01)	(0.00)		(0.01)
Regime change	−0.229	−0.384	−0.256	−0.109	−0.218	−0.233
	(0.27)	(0.46)	(0.21)	(0.09)	(0.29)	(0.19)
Treaties	−0.128	−0.215			−0.140
	(0.10)	(0.17)			(0.11)
EU distance (log)	0.004	0.007	−0.010	−0.004	0.167	−0.103
	(0.27)	(0.46)	(0.16)	(0.07)	(0.33)	(0.16)
Membership aspirations	0.467*	0.784*	0.169*	0.072*	0.629*	−0.028
	(0.24)	(0.41)	(0.09)	(0.04)	(0.33)	(0.17)
Constant	12.799	23.636	1.419	0.322	8.913	2.743
	(20.72)	(34.80)	(11.05)	(4.70)	(21.98)	(11.47)
Observations	176	176	116	116	176	116
R^2	0.384	0.384	0.684	0.684	0.386	0.686

Note: Standard errors are in parentheses.

*p < 0.10.

**p < 0.05.

***p < 0.01.

Figure 1. Coefficient Plots of Effects of Public Administration (Left) and Human Rights (Right) Cooperation on Corresponding Practices Estimated on Models with Lags of 1–4 Years.

Figure 2. Predictive Margins Plot with 95% Confidence Interval for Human Rights (Left) and Public Administration Cooperation (Right).