Leveling the Playing Field Transnational Regulatory Integration and Development

by Bruszt, Laszlo; McDermott, Gerald A.

• ISBN13: 9780198703143
• ISBN10: 0198703147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Laszlo Bruszt, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute,Gerald A. McDermott, Associate Professor, Moore School of Business and Senior Research Fellow, IAE Business School, University of South Carolina and Universidad Austral

Laszlo Bruszt is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the European University Institute, Firenze. His earlier research on the economic and political transformation in the post-communist countries resulted in several scholarly articles and the award-winning book (with David Stark) Post-Socialist Pathways. His current work on the interplay between transnationalization, institutional development and economic change has resulted in articles in such scholarly journals as Review of International Political Economy and Studies in Comparative International Development as well as the edited volume (with Ronald Holzhacker) The Transnationalization of States, Economies and Civil Societies. New Modes of Governance in Europe (Springer, 2009).


Gerald A. McDermott is Associate Professor of International Business at the Darla Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina and is a Senior Research Fellow at IAE Business School in Argentina. He was previously Assistant Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School of Business. He specializes in international business and political economy, mainly on issues of institutional change, innovation, risk, and corporate strategy in emerging market countries, particularly East-Central Europe and Latin America. His book, Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Post-Communism (University of Michigan Press, 2002), was a finalist for APSA's 2003 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the Best Book on government, politics, and international affairs.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Governance of Transnational Regulatory Integration and Development, Laszlo Bruszt and Gerald A. McDermott
Part I: Statics and Dynamics in Regional TIRS with Rule Takers and Hegemons
2. The Dual Paths of Transnational Integration and Institutional Upgrading for Mexican Food Safety, Gerald A. McDermott and Belem Avendano Ruiz
3. Strategies of Regulatory Integration via Development: The integration of the Polish and Romanian dairy industries into the EU single market, Laszlo Bruszt and Julia Langbein
4. Transnational Integration and Labor Market Regulation in Mexico and Beyond, Michael J. Piore and Andrew M. Schrank
5. The NAFTA Side Agreements and Governance in Mexico, Mark Aspinwall
6. Greener Together? Transnational Networks and Environmental Protection in the Enlarged EU, Liliana B. Andonova and Ioana A. Tuta
7. Strategies for Integration in the EU's Pre-Accession Process: Reshaping Party Positions and State Institutions, Aneta Spendzharova and Milada Anna Vachudova
Part II: Emerging TIRs in the Global South: Blockage and Coordination in the Mercosur
8. Informal Drivers of Regional Regulatory Integration: The Auto Sector in Central Europe and Latin America, Moises Costa and Wade Jacoby
9. Multiple Paths towards Regime Building?: SPS Regulation in the MERCOSUR, Miguel F. Lengyel and Valentina Delich
Part III: Fragmentation and Regime Complexity in TRRs
10. Assembling an Experimentalist Regime: Transnational Governance Interactions in the Forest Sector Revisited, Christine Overdevest and Jonathan Zeitlin
11. Regional Integration and Transnational Regulatory Regimes: The Polycentric Architecture of Governance in Latin American Telecommunications, Jacint Jordana and David Levi-Faur
12. Transnational Regulatory Regimes in Finance: A Comparative Analysis of their (Dis-)Integrative Effects, Katharina Pistor
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