The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies : New Challenges for Governance in Europe

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are witnessing an ever quickening dissolution of the boundaries between internal and external actors and the critical factors for understanding domestic institutional change. In the transnationalization of the economies of Western and Eastern Europe, international cross-ownership networks are playing a growing, and at times dominant role in domestic economies. These economies are governed by states that are increasingly sharing larger and larger parts of their regulative powers with non-domestic actors. These regulations are contested by civil societies that are increasingly based on networks of interlinked domestic and external NGOs. This is an emerging research agenda extending earlier research on transnationalization, which focused on the supra-national level, and it goes beyond the Europeanization literature that focused on externally induced or imposed change in domestic institutions. This book brings together in one volume the study of transnationalization in three institutional fields: civil society, state and the economy and extends the research of processes of transnationalization to evolving new democracies and emerging market economies. This book should be of interest to scholars and students in the field of political science, public policy, European studies, and international relations. -- 1. Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalizationand the Varieties of Transnationalization: Introduction, László Bruszt and Ronald Holzhacker -- 2. Transnational Integration Regimes as DevelopmentProgrammes, László Bruszt and Gerald A. McDermott -- 3. From Employee Governance to Corporate Governance: Transnational Forces and the Polish Corporate GovernanceDebates Since the 1980s, Arjan Vliegenthart -- 4. The Domestic Regulation of Transnational LabourMarkets: EU Enlargement and the Politics of LabourMigration in Switzerland and Ireland, Alexandre Afonso -- 5. The Transnationalization of Change in EconomicInstitutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulationsin Ukraine, Julia Langbein -- 6. The Politics of the Competition State: The Agents andMechanisms of State Transnationalization in Centraland Eastern Europe, Jan Drahokoupil -- 7. Transnationalization and Domestic Policy-MakingProcesses: Electricity Market Reform in Belgiumand Switzerland, Marie-Christine Fontana -- 8. Transnationalization and the Georgian State: Myth or Reality?, Nina Dadalauri -- 9. Transnational Strategies of Civil Society OrganizationsStriving for Equality and Nondiscrimination: ExchangingInformation on New EU Directives, Coalition Strategiesand Strategic Litigation, Ronald Holzhacker -- 10. National and European? Protesting the Lisbon Agendaand the Services Directive in the European Union, Louisa Parks -- 11. Transnational Governance of Labour Standards: Insightsfrom the Clothing Industry in Turkey, Tugce Bulut -- 12. Transnationalization and Its Governance - Actorhoodand Power in the Shadow of Global Crisis, Marie-Laure Djelic Front Matter....Pages i-xii Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalization and the Varieties of Transnationalization: Introduction....Pages 1-21 Transnational Integration Regimes as Development Programmes....Pages 23-59 From Employee Governance to Corporate Governance: Transnational Forces and the Polish Corporate Governance Debates Since the 1980s....Pages 61-82 The Domestic Regulation of Transnational Labour Markets: EU Enlargement and the Politics of Labour Migration in Switzerland and Ireland....Pages 83-106 The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine....Pages 107-133 The Politics of the Competition State: The Agents and Mechanisms of State Transnationalization in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 135-155 Transnationalization and Domestic Policy-Making Processes: Electricity Market Reform in Belgium and Switzerland....Pages 157-178 Transnationalization and the Georgian State: Myth or Reality?....Pages 179-217 Transnational Strategies of Civil Society Organizations Striving for Equality and Nondiscrimination: Exchanging Information on New EU Directives, Coalition Strategies and Strategic Litigation....Pages 219-239 National and European? Protesting the Lisbon Agenda and the Services Directive in the European Union....Pages 241-261 Transnational Governance of Labour Standards: Insights from the Clothing Industry in Turkey....Pages 263-284 Transnationalization and Its Governance – Actorhood and Power in the Shadow of Global Crisis....Pages 285-295 Back Matter....Pages 297-302 The two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall witnessed the increased melting away of boundaries between internal and external actors and the critical factors for understanding domestic institutional change. In the transnationalization of the economies of Western and Eastern Europe, international cross-ownership networks are playing a growing, and at times dominant role in domestic economies. These economies are governed by states that are increasingly sharing larger and larger parts of their regulative powers with non-domestic actors. These regulations are contested by civil societies that are increasingly based on networks of interlinked domestic and external NGOs. This is an emerging research agenda extending earlier research on transnationalization, which focused on the supra-national level, and it goes beyond the Europeanization literature that focused on externally induced or imposed change in domestic institutions. This book brings together in one volume the study of transnationalization in three institutional fields: civil society, state and the economy and extends the research of processes of transnationalization to evolving new democracies and emerging market economies. This book should be of interest to scholars and students in the field of political science, public policy, European studies, and international relations This book brings together the study of transnationalization in three institutional fields: civil society, state and the economy. It also extends the research of processes of transnationalization to evolving new democracies and emerging market economies.