Wade Jacoby is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His first book, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000, and he has published in many journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, East European Constitutional Review, WSI-Mitteilungen, Governance, German Politics and Society, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Jacoby received the Carl Friedrich Priz...