The European Union and the Baltic States (eBook, ePUB)

Changing forms of governance
Redaktion: Jacobsson, Bengt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states. It focuses on changes in the policies, politics and administrative practices that have taken place after 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and on the influence of rules and ideas in the European Union. The authors investigate the meeting between national traditions, rule-making and practices - on the one hand; and traditions, rule-making and practices connected to the European Union - on the other. Drawing on organization theory, and the image of states as complex and fragmented organizations, this book discusses:

• The forms of governance that are directed towards states, differentiating between regulative, inquisitive and meditative activities.
• The logic of appropriateness and the scriptedness of states. To what extent do the states have to follow the rules, and to what extent are they able to do what they want themselves?
• Adaptation processes in the state organizations.

This book examines how European integration prompts and accelerates new forms of governance in Europe; it will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, the European Union and the Baltic states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135211905
• Artikelnr.: 42982592

Autorenporträt

Bengt Jacobsson is Professor in Management and Organization Theory at Södertörn University, Sweden. He has published extensively on the relation between changing forms of regulation in Europe and transformations in the nation states, including Europeanization and Transnational States: Comparing Nordic Central Governments (also published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Scripted States and Changes in Governance 2. Europeanization and
Organization Theory 3. Rituals of Inquisition. European Commission
Monitoring of Accession Processes 4. Governance Through Meditation. EU
Twinning in Lithuania 5. Opening up for Change: Modernizing Public
Administration in the Baltic States 6. Europeanization of Labor Market
Policy-Making in the Baltic States 7. The Choice of Parliamentary EU
Scrutiny Mechanisms in the New Member States 8. Scripted Parties: The Case
of Estonian Social Democracy 9. Soft Powers (in a Community of the Willing)