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Informationen zum Autor LINDA WEISS is Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney! Australia. Klappentext New avenue of research into the effects of globalisation on the role of the state. Zusammenfassung General opinion holds that globalisation limits the state's capacity for domestic government. This book questions the thesis that the state's role has been restricted. The contributors argue that globalisation can enable as well as constrain! and that its effects depend on the character of a country's domestic institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
