Forming Economic Policy - The Case of Energy in Canada and Mexico

How do governments make key decisions on vital economic questions of nationalimportance? Can they advance the national interest on issues that are highlypoliticized? How do they respond to competing pressures from the international anddomestic environments? Fo ng Economic Policy explores these and other questions in Canada and Mexico, two very different countries which share a common vulnerability to the world economy. Using the case of energy, the book argues that policymakers will address the national interest, but only episodically with the onset of major national crises that invoke a higher and sustained sense of national priorities. These crises are frequently induced by the interaction of domestic and foreign political and economic forces.The conclusions are surprising. Despite profound political and economic differences between these two countries, policymakers have behaved in remarkably similar ways when arriving at key policy decisions. The explanation - which integrates two competing views of politics, the pluralist and the statist - has important implications with regard to the political processes in those states which, like Canada and Mexico, are exposed to the world economy and face problems of political legitimacy at home. Forming Economic Policy will appeal to students and teachers of political economy and comparative politics as well as to those interested in the politics of energy policy.>

Product details

• Authors: Fen Osler Hampson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472511744
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1174-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Mexico, Canada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Energy industries & utilities, Energy industries and utilities