| Mediating Globalization: Domestic Institutions and Industrial Policies in the United States and Britain Contributor(s): Cortell, Andrew P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791464423 ISBN-13: 9780791464427 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 337.73 |
| Series: Suny Series in Global Politics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.08" W x 8.98" (0.80 lbs) 257 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |