Europeanization, Change, and Continuity in Public Actions in East European Countries: Geographic Information for Foodstuffs in Hungary.

This paper deals with changes and continuities in public actions by studying the transfer into Hungarian law of European regulation on geographic information for agricultural products and foodstuffs. It shows that the Europeanization process derived from the diffusion of new ideas (expertise, technical knowledge) as well as learning processes at different levels of administrative and economic organization rather than from political constraints. Nevertheless, domestic institutions inherited from the Hungarian political trajectory limit the impact of the policy transfer.