Business, Government and EU Accession is the first comprehensive study that meticulously explores how accession to the EU has affected the relationship between business and government in post-communist countries. It is a must read for anybody interested in Europeanization and domestic change, both in old and prospective member states.

Tanja A. Börzel, Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin

The consequences of EU accession have been a strongly contested theme in the literature on post-Communist Eastern Europe. In this excellent volume, Elena Iankova uses the lens of changing business-government relations to show how accession has its effects. Professor Iankova traces how legal conditionality, financial aid, and pressures for capacity building served to fundamentally change-and even constitute-the political relationship between the state and the private sector. An important contribution on an important issue.

Stephan Haggard, Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations, University of California, San Diego