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Cover -- Interpreting Convergence in the European Union -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Social Capital, Institutional Networks and Learning: Conceptualizing Governance in the Era of Globalization -- 2 Social Learning and Adaptation within European Regional Policy -- 3 Greece: Restructuring under Pressure or the Response to an External Shock -- 4 Institutional Capacity and Policy Environment in the Southern Aegean Islands -- 5 Institutional Capacity and Policy Environment in the Northern Aegean Islands -- 6 Catching up by Learning in European Structural Policy: Policy Networks and Adaptation in the Southern Aegean Islands -- 7 Neither Learning nor Leadership: Policy Networks and State-driven Adaptation in the Northern Aegean Islands -- 8 Conclusions: Social Capital, Institutional Learning and Adaptation within European Regional Policy. Implications for Integration Theory -- Notes -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article focuses on the regionalization process in Hungary in light of the increasing Europeanization of regional policy. Its underlying assumption is that, although the Europeanization process plays a crucial role in the transformation of the domestic governance structures, the adaptation process is significantly dependent on the learning capacity of the pre-existing institutional infrastructure. In that respect it evaluates the learning capacity of the domestic regional policy network by concentrating on the structure of the state & the center-periphery relations, the presence of veto points & resistance to change, the level of social capital & cooperative culture, & the role of non-state actors -- namely the private sector, experts, & NGOs -- in the policy process. 5 Tables, 3 Figures, 2 Maps, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.