Neo-liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

by Lee, Simon; McBride, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781402062193
• ISBN10: 1402062192
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua); Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy); Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO); and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.

Table of Contents

Introduction : neo-liberalism, state power and global governance in the twenty-first century	p. 1
European economic integration : the threat to Modeil Deutschland	p. 27
Stranded on the common ground? : global governance and state power in England and Canada	p. 41
Assessing the globalization-decentralization nexus : patterns of education and reform in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua	p. 61
Tracking neo-liberalism : labour market policies in the OECD area	p. 79
Social economy policies as flanking mechanisms for neo-liberalism : trans-national policy solutions, emergent contradictions, local alternatives	p. 95
Assessing the convergence thesis of legal reforms in emerging market economies	p. 111
Governance, trade and labour mobility	p. 127
Neo-liberal policies and immigrant women in Canada	p. 145
The logic of neo-liberalism and the political economy of consumer debt-led growth	p. 157
World trade and world money : the case for a new world currency unit	p. 173
Multilateral institution-building in a neo-liberal era : the case of competition policy	p. 187
The World Trade Organization and global governance	p. 201
Human welfare and the future of the World Trade Organization : rethinking the international institutional architecture	p. 217
The organization for economic co-operation and development : meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century?	p. 231
Conclusion : the need to rebuild the public domain	p. 245
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