The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Ole Hammerslev

Ole Hammerslev

Professor

Ole Hammerslev

Reforming the Bulgarian State of Knowledge: Legal Expertise as a Resource in Modelling States

Author

  • Ole Hammerslev

Summary, in English

The transformation of the Eastern European countries from communist states to EU members was supported by massive investments in Western discourses and social science knowledge and export programmes for these from the West to the East. In the West, and specifically in the US, a market for discourses and knowledge production professionalized and intertwined with institutions that exported specific forms of policy visions of US modes of the State. In the East, the importation of discourses and knowledge became pivotal in the struggles for power of modelling the state and its institutions, and thus as knowledge tools to guide and legitimize the path towards democracy and later towards membership of the EU. Based on the notion of co-production, this study focuses on how leading American and European lawyers, think tanks and different agencies were involved in the reorganisation of the Bulgarian field of power.

Publishing year

2015-02-23

Language

English

Pages

247-262

Publication/Series

Journal of European Integration

Volume

37

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Law and Society

Keywords

  • EU enlargement
  • European integration
  • co-production
  • legal development
  • social scientific knowledge
  • state reforms

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0703-6337