Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Graph, and Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe
- 1 Emulation as Embedded Rationalism
- 2 Emulation as Rapid Modernization: Health Care and Consumer Protection
- 3 Emulation Under Pressure: Regional Policy and Agriculture
- 4 The Struggle for Civilian Control of the Military
- 5 Military Professionalization in War and Peace
- 6 Using Theory to Illuminate the Cases
- 7 Synthesis and Sequence: Juxtaposing Theory Traditions
- 8 Extensions and Conclusions
- Appendix: Selected List of Persons Interviewed
- Works Cited
- Index
6 - Using Theory to Illuminate the Cases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Graph, and Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe
- 1 Emulation as Embedded Rationalism
- 2 Emulation as Rapid Modernization: Health Care and Consumer Protection
- 3 Emulation Under Pressure: Regional Policy and Agriculture
- 4 The Struggle for Civilian Control of the Military
- 5 Military Professionalization in War and Peace
- 6 Using Theory to Illuminate the Cases
- 7 Synthesis and Sequence: Juxtaposing Theory Traditions
- 8 Extensions and Conclusions
- Appendix: Selected List of Persons Interviewed
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Although many recognize potential complementarities between [the] various institutionalisms, metatheoretical debate has often hindered theoretical dialogue and fruitful empirical work.
(Jupille, Caporaso, and Checkel 2003: 8)Chapters 2—5 described the variety of forms of emulation that have appeared in CEE over the past fifteen years. They traced the way various configurations of IO incentives and domestic considerations shaped elite use of four modes of emulation. The same chapters also explained the importance of the density of IO rules and the density of policy sector actors for four different kinds of outcomes of emulation. This chapter and the next connect that description to broader theoretical debates. This chapter assesses the cases in light of individual institutional theories. It does so by trying to sidestep the “metatheoretical debate” noted in the epigraph and noting the places where the three theory traditions are most helpful and where the lacunae in each lie. It begins with the NATO cases just explored and then returns to the EU cases discussed in chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 7 then employs limited syntheses of the three bodies of theory to mine the data for more insights about the overall postcommunist transformation.
DEFENSE REFORMS IN LIGHT OF THE THREE THEORY TRADITIONS
Defense reform went through the same phases in each state. In a nutshell, the defense sector began the postcommunist period moribund and discredited in both states.
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- The Enlargement of the European Union and NATOOrdering from the Menu in Central Europe, pp. 179 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004