Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State: Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415399883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 336 str.

Takashi Inoguchi;Ian Marsh;Takashi Inoguchi

Opis

This is first integrated book-length account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey, administered at the end of 2000, in nine European and nine Asian countries, this book demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and most globally integrated – regions.

Globalization, Public Opinion and the State is a pioneering empirical study, drawing on 18,000 interviews across these 18 European and Asian countries supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education. The Asian-Europe Survey is one of the largest of its kind ever conducted, and provides the book with a wealth of novel data on public opinion and social attitudes that identify the linkages between national/regional policy responses and the political and policy orientations of the publics affected.

The book uses theoretical insights to situate these public responses and reactions to globalization; and it addresses one question in particular: do nation states matter in how citizens come to view regional and global engagement? Rather than offering another theory about globalization, this book presents much-needed empirical findings that help us decide between arguments about the public impact of globalization cross-nationally. This book breaks new ground as there no other comprehensive study in this field.

Spis treści

1. Globalisation and Public Opinion in Western Europe and East and South-East Asia  Part 1: Encountering and Assessing Globalisation  2. The ‘Objective’ Impact of Globalisation and its Socio-Political Context  3. Exposure to Globalisation  4. How the Public Evaluates Globalisation  5. Citizens’ Attitudes to International Organisations and Reactions to Globalisation  Part 2: Encountering and Responding to Globalisation  6. Identity, Inequality and Globalisation  7. Ideology and Globalisation  8. Finding Global Solutions?: How Citizens View Policy Problems and their Solutions  9. Globalisation and Political Participation  10. Determinants of Mass Attitudes to Globalisation  11. Globalisation and Citizen Attitudes to Politics