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Government and the Economy

A Global Perspective

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

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Government and the Economy

A Global Perspective

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

Globalization is a common theme in the discourse of post-industrial society, yet it is a process that is ill understood. Is it basically a technological phenomenon or does its immense impulse derive from economic factors? Should it be regulated by government, and at what level? Questions such as these are debated continuously in the mass media, yet there are no simple answers available, as globalization is not only an amporphous but also a contested phenomenon.Government and the Economy is a completely reworked edition of Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson's popular text Comparative Political Economy, which the authors have updated for the twenty-first century. They present a profound analysis of how globalization changes the boundaries between state and market, public and private, and government and society. When the state retreats and markets expand, what are the major outcomes? And what is driving this process of redefining the roles of government and the tasks of society?The book offers a penetrating survey of the differences between the countries of the world in terms of their economy and polity, and a forceful critique of the prevailing models in political economy. Lane and Ersson look closely at Public Choice theories which emphasize the role of markets in accomplishing efficient solutions to human interaction while modeling governments as enhancing state failure. They argue that such accounts are misguided. The need for govenment in the global market economy is as strong as it is in relation to the domestic economy. They go on to suggest that the most efficient and equitable means of strengthening government in the global market place, without creating one-world government, is the reform and empowerment of IGOs.

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362

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A&C Black

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0826454925

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9780826454928

Politics and Society in Western Europe

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

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Politics and Society in Western Europe

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

Politics and Society in Western Europe is a comprehensive introduction for students of West European politics and of comparative politics. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet with the new needs of undergraduate students as they come to terms with a changing social and political landscape in Europe. This textbook provides a full analysis of the political systems of 18 Western European countries, their political parties, elections, and party systems, as well as the structures of government at local, regional, national and European Union levels. Throughout the book, key theoretical ideas are accessibly introduced and examined against the very latest empirical data on civil society and the state.

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404

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SAGE

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0761958622

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9780761958628

The New Institutional Politics

Performance and Outcomes

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

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The New Institutional Politics

Performance and Outcomes

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante O. Ersson

The New Institututional Politics explores how political institutions matter for political, economic and social outcomes and estimates their impact in relation to other major factors such as culture and social structure.

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358

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Psychology Press

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0415183200

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9780415183208

European Politics

An Introduction

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante Ersson

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European Politics

An Introduction

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante Ersson

This comprehensive textbook is the first to go beyond a West European perspective and provide a clear overview of the whole of European politics. Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson address the similarities of key political features among states in Western, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Europe and look forward to political developments at the turn of the century. Traditionally, books have polarized Europe by focusing on points of divergence. European Politics provides a thoroughgoing analysis of several converging themes, including political culture, the nature of the state, party systems, and the formation of government and public policies. With this approach to economic, social and political aspects of politics in Europe this major text presents a Europe that, within the context of reform, transition and integration, has more in common in the early 1990s than ever before. With a clear thematic structure and helpful discussions of data drawn from some 30 countries European Politics offers both an accessible and genuinely comparative text which will be essential reading for student and researcher alike.

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1849208190

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Book's by Svante O. Ersson

Government and the Economy

Government and the Economy

Politics and Society in Western Europe

Politics and Society in Western Europe

The New Institutional Politics

The New Institutional Politics

European Politics

European Politics

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