This work examines the recent history of politics in Ontario to offer some general principles for other governments involved in political transitions. In doing so, it discusses the potentially fractious relationship between incoming governments and the bureaucrats from the old regime.
This work examines the recent history of politics in Ontario to offer some general principles for other governments involved in political transitions....
The speed and intensity of global integration in the last two decades have provoked serious debate about the human impact of globalization and deep concern about the capacity of the state to provide social justice. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks focuses on two dimensions of globalization: the cultural and social realities of global connection and the uneasily shifting role of the state.
While global processes are fusing societies and economies more deeply than ever before, the editors argue that obituaries for the state are premature, if not wholly inappropriate. These...
The speed and intensity of global integration in the last two decades have provoked serious debate about the human impact of globalization and deep...
Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates from self-determination movements that jeopardize state sovereignty from 'inside'. Rigorously analyzing popular hypotheses on globalization's effect on state sovereignty from a broad social sciences...
Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unle...
