Critical Dialogues : EU Accession and the transformation of post-communist social policy

ISBN-13: 9783639111552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str.

Noemi Lendvai

Opis

The EU entered into a very unique and particularlandscape when ventured into the project of EasternEnlargement, and engaged in a political, economic,social and cultural dialogue with the post-communistcountries. The book, taking the standpoint of thecandidate countries, aims to bring the indigenousperspectives and voices of accession countries intothe academic forum. The EU Accession process isconceptualised as a complex multi-dimensional project , which transforms perceptions, identities,policy substance and policy formation, institutionalstructures, discourses and most of all policymeanings. Within this frame EU Accession isunderstood as a meeting point of national andsupranational social policies and as a fragiledialogue of these two systems, with two differentconstructions, two different policymaking structures,two different historical legacies and social policyvocabulary. These two cultural systems , with theirdifferent understandings and meanings, acts as amirror, making EU Accession a reflexive process,which highlights fundamental capacities andincapacities, institutional features, conceptualframeworks and political constructions.

O autorze

Noemi Lendvai is currently a Lecturer in Comparative Social
Policy at University of Bristol, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the
Institute for Social and European Studies (ISES), Koszeg,
Hungary. She has been researching the transformation and
Europeanisation of post-communist social policy for the last 10
years.