Introduction: transferring rules across borders -- Cross-national rule transfer: state capacity and organized interests -- Conditions for rule transfer at the source -- Rule adoption in Poland and Hungary -- Mapping the network of EU social policy and enlargement -- State building and the politics of social influence -- The weakness of interest mediation in Central and Eastern Europe -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of interviews -- Appendix 2: Constructing the social network database
Summary
Focusing on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, Building States without Society highlights the real limits of cross-national rule transfer even when power is uneven between rule-makers and rule-takers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-230) and index
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