Book launch: Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations Beyond Accession in Central and Eastern Europe

Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations takes a policy studies perspective in considering post-communist EU member states’ experiences since accession. The book analyses policy transfer processes and expands the new and growing sub-field of policy failure by interrogating the binary ideas of ‘failure’ and ‘success’ in the context of the Central Eastern European (CEE) transition, democratic consolidation and European Union membership. The book was edited Agnes Batory, Andrew Cartwright and Diane Stone and many of the contributing authors have a long-standing connection with CEU and the Center for Policy Studies: D. Adascalitei, D. Craciun, S. Domonkos, H. Grabbe, A. Kemmerling, A. Krizsan, K. Makszin, L. Matei, G. Medve-Balint, B.G. Peters, S. Svensson, A. Tetenyi, S. Torotcoi, V. Zentai. The book is meant to illustrate 15 years of the CEU CPS research agenda.

Introductory remarks about 15 years' of the
CEU Center for Policy Studies
Violetta Zentai (Co-Director, CEU Center for Policy Studies)

Remarks by the editors
Agnes Batory, Andrew Cartwright, and Diane Stone

A resounding success or downright failure? Understanding policy transfer within the Bologna Process in Central and Eastern Europe
Liviu Matei (CEU Provost and Pro-Rector)

Discussant
Zsolt Boda (Director of the Institute for Political Science,
Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Poster (Download)