Mediating Globalization : Domestic Institutions and Industrial Policies in the United States and Britain (Suny series in Global Politics)

Cortell, Andrew P.

State University of New York Press（2006/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 257 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791464427
• DDC分類 337.73

Full Description

Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain.

Has globalization fundamentally altered international relations, producing a race to the bottom in which states compete for economic growth and development by adopting similar liberal economic strategies? Mediating Globalization challenges this increasingly dominant perspective, demonstrating that national governments often respond to global competitive pressures with more, not less, economic intervention. Using interviews, archival research, and secondary sources, Andrew P. Cortell explores the strategies adopted by the United States and Britain with regard to one of the world's most globalized sectors, the semiconductor industry. From the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, he argues, increasing globalization pressures in each country led them to more actively intervene in the evolution of their semiconductor markets, rather than assume a more marginal role. The empirical evidence, moreover, indicates that the two countries adopted similar responses, whether liberal or interventionist, as a consequence of similar domestic institutional incentives rather than constraints identified to emerge from globalization.

Contents

List of Tables


Preface


Part I The Argument
1. Globalization and Convergence? The Domestic Impact of Globalization
2. Globalization, Domestic Institutions, and Industrial Strategies


Part II The United States
3. Liberal Convergence: The Carter and First Reagan Administrations
4. Industrial Policy Without Limits? Reagan's Second Term
5. Intervention and Institutional Change: The 1990s


Part III Britain
6. Emerging Globalization and Intervention: 1970-1980
7. Intervention, Disengagement, and State Transformation: The Conservatives' Turn


Part IV Conclusion
8. Globalization and Domestic Institutions: Conclusions


Notes
Bibliography
Index
SUNY series in Global Politics