States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In: 86 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 86)

Cambridge University Press, 2/13/2003
EAN 9780521819138, ISBN10: 052181913X

Hardcover, 380 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The growing interconnectedness of national economies and an expanding awareness of global interdependence in the 1990s have generated lively debate over the future of national governance. In a world of mobile capital, are states vital to the social and economic wellbeing of their citizens? A number of changes in the state's domestic and international environment - ranging from regulatory reforms and welfare state restructuring to the proliferation of intergovernmental agreements - have promoted the view that globalisation has a negative impact, compromising state capacities to govern domestically. This book challenges the 'constraints thesis'. Covering vital areas of state activity (welfare, taxation, industrial strategy, and regulatory reform), the contributors focus on a range of issues (finance, trade, technology) faced by both developed and developing countries. The contributors argue that globalisation can enable as well as constrain, and they seek to specify the institutional conditions which sharpen or neutralise the pressures of interdependence.

1. Bringing domestic institutions back in Linda Weiss
Part I. The Resilience of Welfare States
2. Disappearing taxes of the 'race to the middle'? Fiscal policy in the OECD John Hobson
3. Withering welfare? Globalisation, political economic institutions, and contemporary welfare states Duane Swank
4. Globalisation and social security expansion in East Africa M. Ramesh
Part II. New Economic Challenges, Changing State Capacities
5. France
a new 'capitalism of voice'? Michael Loriaux
6. The challenges of economic upgrading in liberalising Thailand Richard Doner and Ansil Ramsay
7. Building institutional capacity for China's new economic opening Tianbiao Zhu
8. New regimes, new capacities
the politics of telecommunications nationalisation and liberalisation David Levi-Faur
9. Ideas, institutions and interests in the shaping of telecommunications reform
Japan and the USA Mark Tilton
10. Diverse paths towards 'the right institutions'
law, the state and economic reform in East Asia Meredith Woo-Cumings
III. Governing Globalisation
11. Managing openness in India
the social construction of a globalist narrative Jalal Alamgir
12. Guiding globalisation in East Asia
new roles for old developmental states Linda Weiss
13. Governing global finance
financial derivatives, liberal states, and transformative capacity William Coleman
14. Is the state being 'transformed' by globalisation? Linda Weiss.