Globalization and the New Politics of Embedded Liberalism

ISBN-13: 9780195369328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Jude C. Hays

Opis

As the world economy slides into the worst recession since the 1930s, there is fear that hard times will ignite a backlash against free trade policies and globalization more generally. This book explores the political and economic institutional foundations of the bargain of embedded liberalism and the ways domestic institutions shape how governments redistribute the risks and benefits of economic globalization. The author identifies the Anglo-American democracies, because of their majoritarian polities combined with decentralized, competitive economies, as uniquely vulnerable to the contemporary challenges of globalization and the most susceptible to a backlash against it.

Recenzje

Academic and scholarly presses alike have published scores of books praising the benefits of globalization. This, as Jude Hays demonstrates in his prescient book, may be wishful thinking. Combining fresh theoretical insights with sophisticated empirical methods, Hays shows how globalization may be vulnerable to shifting popular sentiments. This would have made for important reading prior to the economic crisis that began in 2007; it is urgent reading today.

O autorze

Jude C. Hays is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and he has published articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Analysis, European Union Politics, International Organization, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.