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dc.contributor.authorVUKOV, Višnja
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-29T11:51:28Z
dc.date.available2014-01-29T11:51:28Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2013en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/29624
dc.descriptionDefence date: 17 September 2013en
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Professor Martin Kohli, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute (Co-supervisor); Professor Dorothee Bohle, Central European University; Professor Martin Myant, University of the West of Scotland
dc.descriptionFirst made available online on 4 July 2019
dc.description.abstractThe thesis deals with the transformations of capitalist states in Europe in the context of increased economic transnationalisation and explores the different strategies that states develop to increase their competitiveness and attract capital, thereby improving the profile of insertion of their economies in the global and regional markets. Starting from the premise that the increased economic integration apparent in market liberalizations, the intensification of trade, the transnationalisation of production and the emergence of transnational financial markets exert pressures on states to reorient their economic and social policies towards the goal of increasing competitiveness and transforming themselves into so-called Competition States, the thesis examines the extent to which this state reorientation has been apparent in Europe and whether it has led to the emergence of unique or varied types of Competition States. The main argument is that, first, pressures for state restructuring vary among European states, with the Eurozone members being much less exposed to the pressures of the international financial markets and thereby much less likely to transform into Competition States and, second, those states that are exposed to such pressures respond in different ways and devise different strategies for increasing competitiveness. Based on the comparative case-studies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia as representatives of the two different types of Competition States, the thesis argues that the choice of these strategies is primarily shaped by the features of the domestic political system - more precisely, the strength or weakness of socio-economic issue divides as the main axis of competition in the political party system - rather than being determined by the position of states in the global or regional division of labour, or by their initial social and economic institutions.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasparthttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/63511
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshCzech Republic -- Economic policy
dc.subject.lcshCzech Republic -- Politics and government
dc.subject.lcshSlovakia -- Economic policy
dc.subject.lcshSlovakia -- Politics and government
dc.titleCompetition states on Europe's periphery : race to the bottom and to the topen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/357383
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