Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. National Differences in the Face of Pressures to Converge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Introduction: Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century

      • Simon Lee, Stephen Mcbride

      Pages 1-24

   3. European Economic Integration: The Threat to Modell Deutschland

      • Michael Whittall

      Pages 27-40

   4. Stranded on the Common Ground?: Global Governance and State Power in England and Canada

      • Simon Lee

      Pages 41-59

   5. Assessing the Globalization–Decentralization Nexus: Patterns of Education and Reform in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua

      • Michael Mcnamara

      Pages 61-76

3. Trans-National Policy Prescriptions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies in the OECD Area

      • Stephen Mcbride, Kathleen Mcnutt, And Russell Williams

      Pages 79-93

   3. Social Economy Policies as Flanking Mechanisms for Neo-Liberalism: Trans-national Policy Solutions, Emergent Contradictions, Local Alternatives

      • Peter Graefe

      Pages 95-110

   4. Assessing the Convergence Thesis of Legal Reforms in Emerging Market Economies

      • Linda Elmose

      Pages 111-123

4. Labour: A Special Case in the Global Economy?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Governance, Trade and Labour Mobility

      • Christina Gabriel

      Pages 127-143

   3. Neo-Liberal Policies and Immigrant Women in Canada

      • Habiba Zaman

      Pages 145-153

5. The Need for Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. The Logic of Neo-Liberalism and the Political Economy of Consumer Debt-Led Growth

      • Johnna Montgomerie

      Pages 157-172

   3. World Trade and World Money: The Case for a New World Currency Unit

      • Duncan Cameron

      Pages 173-185

   4. Multilateral Institution-Building in a Neo-Liberal Era: The Case of Competition Policy

      • Marc Lee

      Pages 187-199

   5. The World Trade Organization and Global Governance

      • Theodore H. Cohn

      Pages 201-215

   6. Human Welfare and the Future of the World Trade Organization: Rethinking the International Institutional Architecture

      • Colin Tyler

      Pages 217-230

   7. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century?

      • Richard Woodward

      Pages 231-244

This volume explores some of the ways in which neo-liberalism has affected both the exercise of state power and the conduct of global governance in the cont- porary global economy. While the contributors have approached their subject from a variety of social science perspectives, their research is united by a number of underlying themes. First, neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. Second, the role of the 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. There is an urgent need for the re-balancing of state power and global governance in favour of the public domain of the state and citizenship, in order to redress some of the inequalities bequeathed by three decades of liberalization, privatization, and de-regulation. Third, the degree to which globalization has undermined the policy autonomy of the de- cratic state has been overstated in many cases. While many poorer developing economies have been presented with a developmental fait accompli, for many more affluent polities, neo-liberal globalization has been a deliberate policy choice. As a consequence, any analysis of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power and global governance must acknowledge the importance of context, including the role played by society, historical traditions, and culture, in mediating the effects of neo-liberalism.

• Deutschland
• Global Governance
• Neo-Liberalism
• Public Domain
• Public Policy
• State Power
• logic
• political economy
• politics

• Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, UK

  Simon Lee

• Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

  Stephen Mcbride

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