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Business, Government, and EU Accession: Strategic Partnership and Conflict
Author(s): Elena A. Iankova (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 1 April 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739130552
- ISBN-13: 9780739130551
Book Description
Through addressing the question of EU influence on in-country institutional relationships, Iankova is able to highlight patterns of Europeanization that develop in those relationships a result of the adaptational pressures of EU accession, and to trace the effectiveness of these adaptive relationship in facilitating the preparedness of an EU-acceding country for EU entry Using Bulgaria as a case study, she examines the mechanisms of these interactions and interrogates the effectiveness of existing models in facilitating national goals of EU accession, revealing difficulties with and resistances to applying an EU-designed model of institutional change in postcommunist regions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The consequences of EU accession have been a strongly contested theme in the literature on post-Communist Eastern Europe. In this excellent volume, Elena Iankova uses the lens of changing business-government relations to show how accession has its effects. Professor Iankova traces how legal conditionality, financial aid, and pressures for capacity building served to fundamentally change―and even constitute―the political relationship between the state and the private sector. An important contribution on an important issue. — Stephan Haggard, Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations, University of California, San Diego
