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9780312235628

Power in the Global Era : Grounding Globalization

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    9780312235628

  • ISBN10:

    0312235623

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-11-25
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This volume discuses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups. TNCs have expanded their power with the deepening of market relations, but they are not causing the state to wither away. Indeed, neoliberal changes often occur with the permission or even encouragement of powerful states. Transnational capital has weakened labor groups in order to make production more competitive, but the disadvantaged groups may mobilize to counter the power of transnational capital. Finally, globalization is subjecting domestic policies to increased international scrutiny.

Author Biography

Theodore H. Cohn is Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University.

Stephen McBride is Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University.

John Wiseman is Associate Professor, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Preface x
Introduction 1(10)
Theodore H. Cohn
Stephen McBride
John Wiseman
Part I Competing Perspectives
Global Discord: the Confusing Discourse of Think-tanks
11(13)
Laurent Dobuzinskis
Restructuring Discourse and its Gendered Underpinnings: Toward a Macro-analytical Framework
24(15)
Isabella Bakker
Part II States, Corporations and the Potential for Transnational Politics
Transnational Contestation: Social Movements Beyond the State
39(14)
James Goodman
Globalization, Law and Transnational Corporations: a Deepening of Market Discipline
53(14)
Claire Cutler
Industrialization and Business Cleavages: Organizational Resources and the Institutional Roots of Business Alliances in Post-war Argentina and Brazil (1950s--1970s)
67(14)
Kenneth C. Shadlen
A Fractured State: Globalization and Mexican Politics
81(18)
Jose Vadi
Part III National and Transnational Policy-making
Anti-globalists and Agricultural Protection: the State Battles On
99(11)
David N. Balaam
The Influence of Globalization and Internationalization of Domestic Policy Change
110(15)
Steven Bernstein
Ben Cashore
Domestic Institutions and Non-state Actors in International Governance: Lessons from the US-Canada Migratory Birds Convention
125(16)
Luc Juillet
Part IV Subnational Initiatives
`Globalist' versus `Globalized' Cities: Redefining Urban Responses to Globalization
141(14)
Patrick J. Smith
The Global Economy and the Local State
155(18)
Christopher Leo
Part V Labour and the Challenge of Globalization
Globalization, Unemployment and the Redistribution of Working Time
173(13)
Andrew Molloy
John Shields
The Dilemma of Organizing: Trade Union Strategy in International Perspective
186(14)
Carla Lipsig-Mumme
Here to Stay? The 1998 Australian Waterfront Dispute and its Implications
200(14)
John Wiseman
Index 214

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