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The Myth of the Powerless State
Conventional wisdom argues that the integration of the world economy is making national governments less powerful, but Linda Weiss disagrees. In an era when global society and the transnational market are trendy concepts, she suggests that state capacities for domestic transformative strategies prov...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Myth of the Powerless State; Title; Dedication; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: THE STATE IS DEAD: LONG LIVE THE STATE; Introduction; The Phenomenon of 'State Denial'; Scope of the Argument; State capacity defined; Advantages of state capacity in a global economy; The sources of state capability; State adaptation versus state decline; Globalization versus social caging?; The Book in Outline; Chapter 2: THE SOURCES OF STATE CAPACITY; Introduction; The Problem of State Capacity; Delimiting state capacity; The problem of government failure
- Weak capability and the liberal state: situational imperatives and domestic orientationsApproaches to State Capacity; Capacity as social bargaining: corporatism; Capacity as coercion: the 'strong-state' thesis; The critique of statism; Capacity as 'policy instruments': the role of national financial systems; Capacity as embedded autonomy: organization of state and society; Capacity as a special form of infrastructural power: 'governed interdependence'; Conclusion; Chapter 3: TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY IN EVOLUTION: EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTAL STATES; Introduction
- Disciplined supportPublic risk absorption; Private-sector governance; Public-private innovation alliances; Serving capital or shared project?; Conclusion: State 'Power' in East Asia; Chapter 4: LIMITS OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE STATE: SWEDISH MODEL OR GLOBAL ECONOMY?; Introduction; Distributive State Capacity; Sweden as a distributive state; What is the 'Swedish model'?; Strengths of the Swedish approach; The Model Unravels: External Pressures?; International system hypotheses; Mobility of capital; The changing structure of production; Undermining from Within; Rise of the sheltered sector
- Pressures on organized labourAccommodationist policies of government; Industry's reluctance to invest; The Limits of a Distributive Strategy; A market-led stance towards upgrading; A distributive logic to adjustment; Putting Sweden's welfare state into perspective; Weak transformative capacity; Explanations of the Swedish Strategy; Structural vulnerability; Institutional incompatibility; Historical institutionalism; Conclusion; Chapter 5: DUALISTIC STATES: GERMANY IN THE JAPANESE MIRROR; Introduction; The German Case: How 'Developmental' is the State?; Five propositions