Politics of High Tech Growth - Developmental Network States in the Global Economy

Informationen zum Autor Seán Ó Riain is Professor of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Klappentext A detailed study of the software industry in Ireland, examining the policies and political institutions which made that possible. Zusammenfassung The book provides a detailed study of the software industry in Ireland! of the state policies that promoted it! the political institutions which made that possible and of how similar institutions have been central to other high-tech regions in Taiwan! Israel and elsewhere. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; Part I. Development in the Global Information Economy: 1. Networks of development: globalization, high technology, and the Celtic Tiger; 2. State developmentalisms and capitalist globalizations; 3. Explaining the Celtic Tiger; Part II. Software and the Celtic Tiger: 4. 'Location Nation': remaking society for foreign investment; 5. Indigenous innovation and the developmental network state; 6. Making global and local; 7. The class politics of the global region; Part III. The Politics of the Developmental Network State: 8. Institutions of the developmental network state; 9. Politics and change in developmental regimes; 10. Developmental bureaucratic and network states in comparative perspective; 11. Futures of the network state; Appendix A. Methodology of the study; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Sean O Riain, O RIAIN SEAN, Sean O'Riain, Sean (National University of Ireland O'Riain, Sean (National University of Ireland O''riain
• Assisted by: Mark Granovetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521830737
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83073-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education