In this volume, David B. Audretsch and Charles F. Bonser present a view of Globalization and Regionalization that holds that the interaction between a more open trading system and the new telecommunications and computer technology has substantially increased productivity and facilitated the fragmentation of the production process. The fragmentation of the production process has resulted in a new international organization of production. It has accelerated the globalization of national economies and has allowed firms to take advantage of low wages, wherever they are to be found, and, where...

The volume includes contributions by members of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC). Earlier versions of these essays have been presented and discussed at the TPC Colloquium on Liberalization and Democratic Governance held in Speyer, Germany in June 2003. The contributions focus on sub-themes that are critical on both sides of the Atlantic: the role of the state with social and economic actors, policy development and regulatory challenges to the state, and the changing nature of democratic institutions and participation. The volume provides a unique insight into European and American...

Center for European Integration, University of Bonn, Germany Instituto Nacional de Administradio, Lisbon, Portugal Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Danish School of Public Administration, Frederiksberg, Denmark Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, Rome, Italy The papers presented in this volume were originally presented at the Paris and Bloomington conferences. They were subsequently updated, where necessary, to include new information or circumstances. Plans call for future colloquia of the group to publish their results. For...