ABSTRACT:
Editors:
Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada), Georg Menz (Goldsmiths College, University of London), and Philip G. Cerny (Rutgers University at Newark, USA)
This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalisation. The authors argue that national autonomy is only a relative autonomy in a globalizing world. While these countries may internalise globalisation in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of neoliberalism and a more market-oriented version of capitalism. This process is emphatically a political one. Thus the book examines how distinct social structures, political cultures, patterns of party and interest group politics, classes, public policies, liberal democratic and authoritarian institutions, and the discourses that frame them, are being reshaped by political actors. Chapters cover national experiences from Europe and North America to Asia and Latin America.
