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

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Editors

Authors

1 Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalizationand the Varieties of Transnationalization: Introduction

1.1 Transnationalization of Economies, States and Civil Societies

1.2 Three Converging Literatures of Transnationalization

1.3 Varieties of Transnationalization

1.4 Overview of the Volume

1.5 Transnationalization of the Economy

1.6 Transnationalization of the State

1.7 Transnationalization of Civil Society

References

2 Transnational Integration Regimes as DevelopmentProgrammes

2.1 Introduction

2.2 East Europe and Latin America Compared

2.3 Institution Building and External Factors

2.3.1 The Limits to Incentives and Conditionality: Optimal Designs and Depoliticization

2.3.2 Regulative Capitalism and the Role of TIRs

2.4 Beyond Conditionality

2.5 Comparing EU Accession and NAFTA as Development Programmes

2.5.1 Breadth and Depth

2.5.2 Assistance

2.5.3 Monitoring

2.5.4 Coordination

2.6 The Integration Mechanisms Shaping Domestic Institutional Change

2.6.1 The Development of Food Safety Standards and Institutions

2.6.1.1 Food Safety for EU Accession Countries

2.6.1.2 NAFTA, Mexico and Food Safety

2.6.2 Regional Developmental Regimes in the New Member Countries

2.7 Conclusions

Bibliography

3 From Employee Governance to Corporate Governance: Transnational Forces and the Polish Corporate Governance Debates Since the 1980s

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Theorizing the Impact of Transnational Actors on the Polish Corporate Governance Debate: The Transnational Political Economy of Corporate Governance Regulation

3.3 Three Corporate Governance Concepts

3.4 Competing Corporate Governance Concepts and the Role of Transnational Actors

3.4.1 Early Privatization Plans

3.4.2 Second Round of Privatization Reforms

3.4.3 Corporate Governance Finetuning in the Early 2000s

3.5 Conclusion

References

4 The Domestic Regulation of Transnational Labour Markets: EU Enlargement and the Politics of Labour Migration in Switzerland and Ireland

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Research Question

4.3 Scientific and Social Significance of the Research

4.4 Case Selection and Methods

4.4.1 Similarities: Two Small Liberal Corporatist Economies

4.4.2 Differences: Different Levels of Transnational Influences

4.4.3 Methods

4.5 Labour Market Transnationalization and EU Enlargement

4.5.1 Domestic Response Strategies: Preferences, Power and Institutional Determinants

4.6 Domestic Response Strategies to Labour Market Transnationalization in Switzerland and Ireland

4.6.1 Switzerland: Re-regulation and Cross-class Coalitions

4.6.2 Ireland: Re-regulation as Part of Social Pacting

4.7 Conclusion

4.7.1 Economic Transnationalization and Political Re-regulation

List of Interviews

Switzerland

Ireland

References

5 The Transnationalization of Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Industrial Standards Regulations in Ukraine

5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Research Question and Argument

5.1.2 Social and Scientific Relevance

5.1.3 Outline of the Chapter

5.2 Research Design and Methodology

5.3 Specification of the Dependent Variable: What Is Changing and How?

5.4 Theorizing Change in Economic Institutions

5.4.1 Ontological Assumptions

5.4.2 Domestic Factors for Institutional Change

5.4.3 External Factors: Political Conditionality and Market Liberalization

5.4.3.1 The Power of Political Conditionality

5.4.3.2 The Market Argument

5.4.4 Linking the Domestic with the External Arena: Transnationalization and Institutional Change

5.5 Main Results

5.5.1 The Domestic Factors Hypothesis

5.5.1.1 The Domestic Demand Side

5.5.1.2 The Domestic Supply Side

5.5.2 The Market Liberalization Hypothesis

5.5.3 The Conditionality Hypothesis

5.5.4 The Transnationalization Hypothesis

5.5.4.1 First Initiatives from 2000 Onwards

5.5.4.2 The Laws on Standardization, Conformity Assessment and Accreditation of Conformity Assessment Bodies

5.5.4.3 The Law on Market Surveillance

5.5.4.4 Standards Harmonization

5.5.4.5 The Forgotten Demand Side

5.6 Conclusion

List of Interviews

References

6 The Politics of the Competition State: The Agents and Mechanisms of State Transnationalization in Central and Eastern Europ

6.1 The National Strategies of the Early 1990s

6.2 The Politics of State Internationalization

6.3 Why Did the States Start to Pursue the Competition Strategies?

6.4 Competition State as a Hegemonic Project

6.5 What Is the Comprador Service Sector?

6.6 Varieties of the Comprador Service Sector

6.7 The Multinationals

6.8 Conclusion

References

7 Transnationalization and Domestic Policy-Making Processes: Electricity Market Reform in Belgiumand Switzerland

7.1 Introduction

7.1.1 Research Question

7.1.2 Scientific and Social Significance of the Research

7.1.3 Research Design and Methodology

7.2 Transnationalization of the State and Domestic Policy-Making: An Analytical Framework

7.3 Policy-Making of Electricity Liberalization in Belgium and Switzerland

7.3.1 Organization of the Sector in the Two Countries Before Liberalization

7.3.2 The Decision-Making Process in the Two Countries

7.3.3 Transnationalization and the Influence of Actors in the Belgian Case

7.3.4 Transnationalization and the Influence of Actors in the Swiss Case

7.4 Discussion

7.5 Conclusion

References

Documents

Belgium

Switzerland

Transnational Networks

Interviews

Belgium

Switzerland

Transnational Networks

8 Transnationalization and the Georgian State: Myth or Reality?

8.1 And the Revolution Came

8.2 Scientific and Social Significance

8.3 Neoliberal Tax Policy

8.4 External Influence Conditionality and Beyond

8.5 Domestic Factors

8.5.1 Veto Players

8.5.2 Trade Unions

8.6 Transnationalization Argument

8.7 The Georgian State and Tax Policy-making

8.7.1 Georgian Tax Policy

8.7.2 Party Ideologies

8.7.3 Trade Unions

8.8 External Influence: Conditionality and Beyond

8.9 Transnationalization

8.10 Conclusion

Bibliography

Reports

Online News

Interviews

Official Websites

9 Transnational Strategies of Civil Society Organizations Striving for Equality and Nondiscrimination: ExchangingInformation on New EU Directives, Coalition Strategies and Strategic Litigation

9.1 Europeanization and Transnationalization

9.2 Overview of the Chapter

9.3 The Antidiscrimination Directives and Lobbying by Civil Society Organizations

9.4 ILGA-Europe Annual Conference 2008

9.5 Exchanging Information on the New EU Horizontal Directive

9.6 Coalition Strategies with Other Civil Society Organizations, Labour Unions and Governmental Bodies

9.7 Strategic Litigation

9.8 Conclusion

Bibliography

10 National and European? Protesting the Lisbon Agendaand the Services Directive in the European Union

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Research Question

10.3 Scientific and Social Importance of the Research

10.4 Research Design and Methodology

10.5 Theoretical Overview

10.6 The Lisbon Campaign: A Short, Sharp Shock

10.7 No Valentine for Bolkestein: The Directive on Services in the Internal Market

10.8 Discussion

10.9 Conclusion

Interviews

Bibliography

11 Transnational Governance of Labour Standards: Insights from the Clothing Industry in Turkey

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Research Questions

11.3 Research Design and Methodology

11.4 Theoretical Framework

11.5 Scientific and Social Significance of the Research

11.6 Forces of Transnational Governance

11.6.1 EU Regulations and Political Conditionality Exercised in the Pre-accession Process

11.6.2 Transnational Civil Society Initiatives

11.6.3 Code of Conducts of Transnational Branded Companies

11.6.4 Global Market Forces

11.7 Local Reception of Transnational Governance

11.8 Conclusion

List of Interviews

Turkey

References

12 Transnationalization and Its Governance -- Actorhoodand Power in the Shadow of Global Crisis

12.1 Regulatory Activism

12.2 Transnational Actorhood

12.3 Power and Hegemony

12.4 Contemporary Crisis and Its Impact

References

Index