The European Union and the Baltic States. Changing forms of governance

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.

Table of contents:

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