The Weakest Link? EU Accession and Enlargement: Dialoguing EU and Post-Communist Social Policy

Alber, J. and Standing, G. (2000) ‘Social Dumping, Catch-up or Convergence? Europe in a Comparative Global Context’, Journal of European Social Policy 10 (2): 99–119.

Avdagic, S. (2001) ‘Social Dialogue and the European Union Accession’, Research Report. Budapest: OSI.

Belke, A. and Hebler, M. (2001) ‘Social Policy and Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Labour Market Impacts for the Accession Countries’, Journal for Institutional Innovation, Development and Transition, 5: 48–59.

Bretherton, C. (2001) ‘Gender Mainstreaming and EU Enlargement: Swimming Against the Tide?’, Journal of European Public Policy 8 (1): 60–81.

Brusis, M. (2000) ‘Internal Problems of the European Union that Might Obstruct an Enlargement Toward the East’, in H. Tang (ed.) Winners and Losers of EU Integration. Policy Issues for Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 265–290.Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Bruszt, L. (2001) ‘Market Making as State Making: Constitutions and Economic Development in PostCommunist Eastern Europe’ [www.columbia.edu/cu/iserp/ites/nts/papers/statemaking.pdf].

Bruszt, L. (2002) Making Markets and Eastern Enlargements: Diverging Convergence’, West European Politics, Special Issue 2 (1): 121–141.

Bruszt, L. and Stark, D. (2003) ‘Who Counts? Supranational Norms and Societal Needs’, East European Politics and Societies 17 (1): 74–82.

Cameron, D. (2003) ‘The Challenges of Accession’, East European Politics and Societies 17 (1): 24–41.

Cvijetic, S. (2001) ‘The Enlargement of the European Union: from “Inevitability without a Timetable” to the Policy Conundrum and Back’. Vienna, Paris: ICCR-IFS-CIR.

Daly, M. (2003) ‘Governance and Social Policy’, Journal of Social Policy 32 (1): 113–128.

Deacon, B. (2000a) ‘Eastern European Welfare States: the Impact of the Politics of Globalization’, Journal of European Social Policy 10 (2): 146–161.

Deacon, B. (2000b) ‘Global and Regional Agencies and the Making of Post/Communist Social Policy in Eastern Europe’, in M. Rhodes and Y. Meny (eds) The Future of European Welfare. A New Social Contract?, pp. 204–227. London: Macmillan Press.

Deacon, B. (2001) ‘International Organizations, the EU and Global Social Policy’, in R. Sykes , B. Palier and P. M. Prior (eds) Globalization and European Welfare States, pp. 59–77. Basingstoke: Palgrave Press.

Deacon, B. , Hulse, M. and Stubbs, P. (1997) Global Social Policy. London: Sage Publications.

De la Porte, C. and Deacon, B. (2002) ‘Contracting Companies and Consultants: the EU and the Social Policy of Accession Countries’, GASPP Occasional Paper No. 9/2002 [www.gaspp.org].

De la Porte, C. Pochet, P. and Room, G. (2001) ‘Social Benchmarking, Policy Making and New Governance in the EU’, Journal of European Social Policy 11 (4): 291–307.

Drulak, P. , Cesal, J. and Hampl, S. (2003) ‘Interactions and Identities of Czech Civil Servants on their Way to the EU’, Journal of European Public Policy 10 (4): 637–654.

Ekiert, G. and Zielonka, J. (forthcoming) ‘Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing the EU’s Eastward Enlargement’, Eastern European Politics and Society, Special Issue: The Next Great Transformation – the EU Eastward Enlargement.

EU–Bulgaria Joint Consultative Committee (2002) ‘Social Policy Issues in Bulgaria against the Background of Accession: the Partial Closure of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant and the Minority (Roma) Issue’, DI 39/2002 fin (Etty) EN/O.

European Economic and Social Committee (2000) ‘Engaged in Enlargement’, Task Force Enlargement, Brussels.

European Parliament (1998) ‘The Social Dimension of Enlargement: Social Law and Policy in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia’, Social Affairs Series, Working Paper, Directorate General for Research.

Ferge, Z. (1997) ‘A Central European Perspective on the Social Quality of Europe’, in W. Beck , L. van der Maesen and A. Walker (eds) The Social Quality of Europe. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Ferge, Z. (2001) ‘European Integration and the Reform of Social Security in the Accession Countries’, Journal of European Social Quality 3 (1–2): 9–25.

Ferge, Z. and Tausz, K. (2002) ‘Social Security in Hungary: a Balance Sheet after Twelve Years’, Social Policy and Administration 36 (2): 176–199.

Ferrera, M. and Boeri, T. (2001) ‘EU Social Policies: Challenges and Opportunities for Italy’, The International Spectator 36 (3): 77–88.

Ghellab, Y. and Vaughan-Whitehead, D. (2003) Sectoral Social Dialogue in Future EU Member States: the Weakest Link. Budapest: ILO– European Commission.

Grabbe, H. (2001) ‘How Does Europeanization Affect CEE Governance? Conditionality, Diffusion and Diversity’, Journal of European Public Policy 8 (6): 1013–1031.

Grzymala, A. and Luong, B. (2002) Reconceptualizing the State: Lessons from Post-communism’, Politics and Society 30 (4): 529–554.

GuillÈn, A. , ¡lvarez, S. and Ad‘o e Silva, P. (2002) ‘European Union Membership and Social Policy: the Spanish and Portuguese Experiences’, paper for the inaugural ESPANET conference (Nov.), Copenhagen.

Gyulav·ri, T. and Nagy, K. (2000) ‘Social Policy and Employment Affairs in the European Union’, in European Union Enlargement and the Open Society Agenda: Local Government and Public Administration, OSI/LGI Studies, pp. 109–121. London: OSI.

Henderson, J. and Hulme, D. (2002) ‘Globalisation, National Economic Governance and Poverty Elimination: Insights from East Asia and Eastern Europe’, final report to the Department for International Development, Project R7861.

Inotai, A. (2000) ‘The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia’, in H. Tang (ed.) Winners and Losers of EU Integration. Policy Issues for Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 17–52. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

Jones B. D. and Baumgartner F. (1993) Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Jovanovic, M. (1999) ‘Eastern Enlargement of the European Union. Sweet Lemon or Sour Grapes?’, Brown Economic Review Spring edition: 15–20.

Kleinman, M. (2002) A European Welfare State? London: Palgrave Press.

Kov·cs, J. (2002) ‘Approaching the EU and Reaching the US? Rival Narratives on Transforming Welfare Regimes in East–Central Europe’, West European PoliticsSpecial Issue 2 (1): 175–205.

Leibfried, S. (2000) ‘National Welfare States, European Integration and Globalization: a Perspective for the Next Century’, Social Policy and Administration 34 (1): 44–63.

Lippert, B. Umbach, G. and Wessels, W. (2001) ‘Europeanisation of CEE Executives: EU Membership Negotiation as a Shaping Power’, Journal of European Public Policy 8 (6): 980–1012.

Meardi, G. (2000) ‘Trade Unions, Social Policy and EU Enlargement Eastward’, London School of Economics Ionian Conference (May), Corfu.

Micklewright, J. and Stewart, K. (2000) ‘Child Well-being in the EU – and Enlargement to the East’, Innocenti Working Papers, Economic and Social Policy Series No. 75. UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.

Nowak, M. (1999) ‘Human Rights “Conditionality” in Relation to Entry to, and Full Participation in the EU’, in P. Alston (ed.) The EU and Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Offe, C. (1994) ‘Designing Institutions for East European Transitions’, Institute for Höhere Studien Reihe Politikwissenschaft No. 19. Vienna, Institute for Advanced Studies.

Rhodes, M. (2003) ‘The Enlargement Crisis of the European Union’, Journal of European Social Policy 13 (1): 54–57.

Rys, V. (2001) ‘Transition Countries of Central Europe Entering the European Union: Some Social Protection Issues’, International Social Security Review 54 (2–3): 177–189.

Schimmelfennig, F. and Sedelmeier, U. (2002) ‘Theorizing EU Enlargement: Research Focus, Hypotheses, and the State of Research’, Journal of European Public Policy 9 (4): 500–528.

Sotiropoulos M., Neamtu and Stoyanova, N. (2003) ‘The Trajectory of Post-communist Welfare State Development: the Cases of Bulgaria and Romania’, Social Policy and Administration 37 (6): 656–673.

Standing, G. (1996) ‘Social Protection in Central and Eastern Europe: a Tale of Slipping Anchors and Torn Safety Nets’, in G. Esping-Andersen (ed.) Welfare States in Transition, pp. 225–256. London: Sage Publications.

Szalai, J. (2003) ‘Whose Claim and Whose Risk?’, Journal of European Social Policy 13 (1): 58–60.

T·los, E. and Badelt, C. (1999) ‘The Welfare State Between New Stimuli and New Pressures: Austrian Social Policy and the EU’, Journal of European Social Policy 9 (4): 351–363.

Teague, P. (2000) ‘EU Social Policy: Institutional Design Matters’, Queens’s Papers on Europeanisation No. 1/2000: 1–16.

Vaughan-Whitehead, D. (2003) EU Enlargement versus Social Europe? The Uncertain Future of the European Social Model. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Vobruba, G. (2003) ‘The Enlargement Crisis of the European Union: Limits of the Dialectics of Integration and Expansion’, Journal of European Social Policy 13 (1): 35–62.

Wagener, H-J. (2002) ‘The Welfare State in Transition Economies and Accession to the EU’, West European Politics, Special Issue 2 (1): 152–175.

Watson, P. (2000) ‘Politics, Policy and Identity: EU Eastern Enlargement and East–West Differences’ Journal of European Public Policy, Special Issue 7 (3): 369–384.

Zrinscak, S. (forthcoming) ‘Social Policy in Transition: Croatia and EU Accession Countries Compared’, COST-15 Working Paper.