The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research
area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed …

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational
policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of …

The pension privatization trend that swept Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 1998
and 2004 presents a conundrum when viewed from the perspective of European Union (EU) …

Viktor Orbán and his centre-right Fidesz party won Hungary's April 2010 parliamentary
elections in a landslide, running on a nationalist-populist platform of economic self-rule. This …

Who writes the rules of global finance? This article explains how the transnational financial
policy community can influence the content of financial governance by organizing itself via a …

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform
postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style …

This article discusses transnational professional knowledge in action and puts forward a
conception of how professionals play off different forms of knowledge to provide policy …

This study examines the effect of legal central bank independence on inflation in developing
countries. In spite of the policy consensus suggesting that central bank independence is an …

This introduction summarizes the findings of nine research articles that examine the
consequences of the E uropean U nion's eastern enlargement ten years on. The volume …

International organizations (IOs) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank are assumed to rely on 'sympathetic interlocutors' at the national level to drive through …