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Politics and globalization /
This volume examines how corporations, classes and other social actors exercise political power to advance their interests in a range of historical and geographic settings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2006.
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| Colección: | Research in political sociology ;
v. 15. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editorial board
- Special reviewers
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Politics and Globalization: An Introduction
- States and Markets
- Economic Restructuring
- Responses and Resistance to the Politics of Globalization
- The Business Politics of Globalization
- Globalization and the Politics of Trade Policy
- Globalization and the Crisis of under-Consumption
- Conclusion
- References
- Part I: Political Mobilization and Globalization
- Chapter 2. Taking Cover Beneath the Anti-Bush Umbrella: Cycles of Protest and Movement-to-Movement Transmissions in an Era of Repressive Politics
- Introduction
- Studying the Relationship between Social Movements as Cycles of Protest
- Data and Methods
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusion: Ending the Cycle of Protest?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 3. Organizational Expansion, Liberalization Reversals and Radicalized Collective Action
- Introduction
- State-Movement Dynamics in Nondemocratic Political Settings
- Regime Liberalization and Organizational Expansion
- Liberalization Reversals: The Threatening Authoritarian Political Environment
- Theoretical Summary
- Methods
- Antecedents to Political Liberalization (1885-1927)
- Regime Liberalization: 1927-1930
- Organizational Infrastructure 1927-1930
- Liberalization Reversal: The Threatening Political Environment, 1930-1932
- Quantitative Analysis of the 1932 Rebellion
- Results
- Summary of Quantitative Analysis
- Dismemberment of Civil Society Organizations: 1932-1962
- Findings
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix
- Part II: Business Politics and Globalization
- Chapter 4. The Business of Anti-Globalization Politics: Lessons from Venezuela's 1998 Presidential Elections
- Explaining Business Assistance to an Anti-Neoliberal Candidate
- Data and Analytic Strategy
- Operationalization
- Results of Data Coding
- Results of Data Analysis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix A. Probable Donors by Confirmation Source
- Appendix B. Acronyms
- Chapter 5. Conflict, Cooperation, Convergence: Globalization and the Politics of Downtown Development in Mexico City
- Cities, Globalization, and Conflict
- From Conflict to Urban Politics: Whither the Silences?
- Struggles over Downtown Development in Mexico City: A Case Study
- Politics and Downtown Development before Globalization: Were the Actors Different?
- The 1985 Earthquake and New Opportunities for Downtown Development
- Economic Liberalization, Democratization, and Downtown Development: New Possibilities Meet old Limits
- Urban Development, Security, and Cooperation on Downtown Development
- Globalization and Downtown Development in Theory and Practice: A Summary of Findings
- From Cooperation and Competition to Convergence? Some Concluding Remarks
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Part III: The Politics of Tr.