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to public policy at the domestic level; arguably it merely reinforces the need for eVective and democratic public policy at the ...

of trust in public oYcials and associated discontent and disengagement with formal politics (see, for instance, Dalton 2004 ; Da ...

regulation; and indirectly, since globalization eVectively squeezes theWscal base out of which public policy is funded. 3. More ...

neoliberal policies. Yet in recent years a rather more institutionally diVeren- tiated view has developed. This so-called ‘‘vari ...

What is Globalization? ........................................................................................................ ...

sense of a precise analytical concept that could be operationalized empirically to achieve significant analytical purchase on th ...

(iii) regionalization vs. globalization (referring to the precise geographical scope and character of any particular process of ...

instance, we identify regionalization where once we saw globalization, we may come to view the competitive imperatives such econ ...

3.1 Trade Integration Most accounts of the economic consequences of globalization start from a consid- eration of trade integrat ...

pre-First World War levels of trade integration, at least for the world’s leading economies, are exceeded (Bairoch 1996 ; Hirst ...

taxation receipts out of which a generous welfare state might be funded are rendered increasingly anachronistic—a guarantee of d ...

3.3 Financial Market Integration The third in the triumvirate of sources of external economic constraints on public policy comes ...

considered by market participants in making investment decisions is, in fact, ex- tremely limited. As Mosley explains: Governmen ...

international economy, a burden on competitiveness. Accordingly, in the absence of an international agency capable of enforcing ...

demonstrate that however influential this trade-off is seen to be, it is deeply prob- lematic—both theoretically and empirically ...

References Bairoch,P. 1996. Globalisation myths and realities: one century of external trade and foreign investment. Pp.173 92in ...

Hay, C. and Watson,M. 1999. Globalisation: ‘‘sceptical’’ notes on the 1999 Reith Lectures. Political Quarterly, 70 ( 4 ):418 25. ...

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