Beschreibung:
This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and become modern European states; focusing on changes in policies, politics and administrative practices since 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and on the influence of rules and ideas in the EU.
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)