In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member
states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and
Central Europe. In order to prepare for membership, these countries
had to make many thousands of institutional and legal adjustments.
Indeed, they often tried to modernize in just a few years,
implementing practices that evolved over many decades in Western
Europe. This book emphasizes the way that policy elites in Central
and Eastern Europe often ''ordered from the menu'' of established
Western practices. When did this emulation of Western practices
succeed and when did it result in a fiasco? Professor Jacoby
examines empirical cases in agriculture, regional policy, consumer
protection, health care, civilian control of the military, and
military professionalism from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland,
Bulgaria, and the Ukraine. The book addresses debates in
institutionalist theory, including conditionality, Europeanization,
and external influences on democratic and market transitions.
目錄:
Introduction: ordering from the menu in Central Europe
1. The new institutionalisms and theories of emulation
2. Emulation as rapid modernization: health care and consumer
protection
3. Emulation under pressure: regional policy and agriculture
4. The struggle for civilian control
5. Military professionalization in war and peace
6. Using theory to illuminate the cases
7. Theoretical syntheses
8. Conclusions and extensions