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Book SynopsisBusiness, Government, and EU Accession is a detailed study of how EU accession impacts the relationship between business and government in the acceding country. Iankova identifies three major mechanisms by which the EU has affected business-government interactions: first, the legal conditionalities and harmonization efforts for EU entry; second, the pre-accession and anticipated postaccession financial assistance with its specific priorities and requirements; and third, the capacity building and learning that arises from efforts to adapt to the EU conditionalities of membership. 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 ex
Trade ReviewBusiness, Government and EU Accession is the first comprehensive study that meticulously explores how accession to the EU has affected the relationship between business and government in post-communist countries. It is a must read for anybody interested in Europeanization and domestic change, both in old and prospective member states. -- Tanja A. Börzel, Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin
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
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Dynamics of the Business-Government Consensus on EU Accession in Bulgaria Chapter 3 Trends in the Business-Government Relationship in Bulgaria: Post-Communist Reform and EU Accession Chapter 4 Adjusting to the Legal Conditionalities of Accession Chapter 5 Cooperation and Conflict on the Sensitive Issues of Legal Approximation Chapter 6 The Challenge of Financial Aid Chapter 7 The Capacity-Building Imperative: Partnerships for Learning Chapter 8 Europeanization of Business-Government Relations at the Regional Level Chapter 9 Conclusions
