The fifth enlargement of the EU to include Central
and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) has led to the
creation of new policy instruments, which will become
a common feature in future enlargement rounds of the
Community. Drawing on policy transfer literature and
new forms of governance, this book explores the role
of the EU and its administrative conditionality in
shaping the public administration reforms in Central
and Eastern Europe (CEE). It analyses the
introduction of the "twinning exercise" as well as
the procedural changes which had to be introduced in
order to facilitate the...