Wade Jacoby is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His first book, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000, and he has published in many journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, East European Constitutional Review, WSI-Mitteilungen, Governance, German Politics and Society, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Jacoby received the Carl Friedrich Prize of the American Political Science Association and was a German Marshall Fund visiting scholar at both the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Introduction: ordering from the menu in Central Europe; 1. The new institutionalisms and theories of emulation; 2. Emulation as rapid modernization: health care and consumer protection; 3. Emulation under pressure: regional policy and agriculture; 4. The struggle for civilian control; 5. Military professionalization in war and peace; 6. Using theory to illuminate the cases; 7. Theoretical syntheses; 8. Conclusions and extensions.

'Jacoby's book offers a deep and unique insight'. Steve Schwarzer, European Societies

Wade Jacoby is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His first book, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000, and he has published in many journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, East European Constitutional Review, WSI-Mitteilungen, Governance, German Politics and Society, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Jacoby received the Carl Friedrich Prize of the American Political Science Association and was a German Marshall Fund visiting scholar at both the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Introduction: ordering from the menu in Central Europe; 1. The new institutionalisms and theories of emulation; 2. Emulation as rapid modernization: health care and consumer protection; 3. Emulation under pressure: regional policy and agriculture; 4. The struggle for civilian control; 5. Military professionalization in war and peace; 6. Using theory to illuminate the cases; 7. Theoretical syntheses; 8. Conclusions and extensions.

'Jacoby's book offers a deep and unique insight'. Steve Schwarzer, European Societies

Wade Jacoby is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His first book, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000, and he has published in many journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, East European Constitutional Review, WSI-Mitteilungen, Governance, German Politics and Society, and The British Journal of Industrial Relations. Jacoby received the Carl Friedrich Prize of the American Political Science Association and was a German Marshall Fund visiting scholar at both the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Introduction: ordering from the menu in Central Europe; 1. The new institutionalisms and theories of emulation; 2. Emulation as rapid modernization: health care and consumer protection; 3. Emulation under pressure: regional policy and agriculture; 4. The struggle for civilian control; 5. Military professionalization in war and peace; 6. Using theory to illuminate the cases; 7. Theoretical syntheses; 8. Conclusions and extensions.

'Jacoby's book offers a deep and unique insight'. Steve Schwarzer, European Societies