Bruszt, L., & Langbein, J. (2017). Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(2), 297–315.
Abstract: In contrast to the post-1945 integration of Western Europe in the global economic system, coined by John Ruggie as embedded liberalism, the integration of the Eastern peripheries happens in the framework of a new liberal regional settlement. The latter takes large parts of the management of the economy out of the hands of states […]
Bruszt, L. (2015), Regional Normalization and National Deviations: EU Integration and Transformations in Europe’s Eastern Periphery†. Glob Policy, 6: 38-45.
Abstract: In debates about democratic backsliding in the new Eastern member states, the EU is pictured as an internally divided weak regional institution, momentarily unable or unwilling to impose elementary norms of democratic governance on deviating member states. In this article I argue that the EU, with its integration strategies, is at least as much […]
Bruszt, L., & McDermott, G. A. (Eds.). (2014). Leveling the playing field: Transnational regulatory integration and development. Oxford University Press.
Abstract: Emerging market countries are currently facing a dual challenge. How to incorporate transnational regulations into their societies, while building their own versions of regulatory capitalism. This raises a multitude questions and challenges. Will the diffusion of international public and private regulations of developed countries, benefit a few and marginalize less developed countries? Or, can […]
Bruszt, L., & Vedres, B. (2013). Associating, mobilizing, politicizing: Local developmental agency from without. Theory and Society, 42(1), 1-23.
Abstract: Decades of increase in external aid programs sparked a wide range of criticisms pointing to misaligned interests, lack of accountability, and the reproduction of developmental traps. The success of development from without is more likely if it generates domestic developmental agency. In this article, we contribute by conceptualizing and measuring dimensions of developmental agency. […]
Bruszt, L., & McDermott, G. A. (2011). Integrating rule takers: Transnational integration regimes shaping institutional change in emerging market democracies. Review of International Political Economy, 19(5), 742–778.
Abstract: How does the transnationalization of markets shape institution building, particularly in those countries that have few options other than to incorporate the rules and norms promulgated by advanced industrialized countries? Building on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, we propose a framework for the comparative study of the ways in which transnational […]
Bruszt, L. (2008). Multi-level Governance—the Eastern Versions: Emerging Patterns of Regional Developmental Governance in the New Member States. Regional & Federal Studies, 18(5), 607–627.
Abstract: This article deals with emerging configurations of developmental regionalism and different patterns of multi-level governance in the Central and East European countries, using examples from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. EU conditionality and pre-accession programmes linked to the idea of a Europe of the Regions played a considerable role in the changing—and in […]