Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) and index.
Introduction: transferring rules across borders -- Cross-national rule transfer: state capacity and organized interests -- Conditions for rule transfer at the source -- Rule adoption in Poland and Hungary -- Mapping the network of EU social policy and enlargement -- State building and the politics of social influence -- The weakness of interest mediation in Central and Eastern Europe -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of interviews -- Appendix 2: Constructing the social network database