1st Edition

The European Union and the Baltic States Changing Forms of Governance

Edited By Bengt Jacobsson Copyright 2010
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1: Scripted States and Changes in Governance - Bengt Jacobsson 2: Europeanization and Organization Theory - Bengt Jacobsson 3: Rituals of Inquisition. European Commission Monitoring of Accession Processes - Matilda Dahl 4: Governance Through Meditation. EU Twinning in Lithuania - Jenny Svensson 5: Opening up for Change: Modernizing Public Administration in the Baltic States - Eva Granqvist and Emma Wallin 6: Europeanization of Labor Market Policy-Making in the Baltic States - Kerstin Jacobsson and Charlotte West 7: The Choice of Parliamentary EU Scrutiny Mechanisms in the New Member States - Ann-Cathrine Jungar 8: Scripted Parties: The Case of Estonian Social Democracy - Karl Magnus Johansson 9: Soft Powers (in a Community of the Willing) - Bengt Jacobsson and Anders Nordström

Biography

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).