Globalizing Interests is an innovative study of globalization "from inside," looking at the reaction of nationally constituted interest groups to challenges produced by the denationalization process. The contributors focus on business associations, trade unions, civil rights organizations, and right-wing populists from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, and examine how they have responded to three extremely globalized issue areas: the Internet, migration, and climate change. What they find is that "the politics of denationalization" is a new game with new rules, new teams, and surprisingly broad support for governance beyond the nation state.
Author(s): Michael Zurn (ed.), Gregor Walter (ed.)
Series: SUNY Series in Global Politics
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 350
Globalizing Interests: Pressure Groups and Denationalization......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 9
1 Globalizing Interests—An Introduction......Page 11
ON GLOBALIZATION: BROAD DEFINITIONS, METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM AND STRUCTURAL SHORTCUTS......Page 12
FROM INTERDEPENDENCE TO GLOBALIZATION AND DENATIONALIZATION......Page 16
AVOIDING METHODOLOGICAL NATIONALISM: SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO DENATIONALIZATION......Page 21
AVOIDING STRUCTURAL SHORTCUTS: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND CASES......Page 23
HYPOTHESES AND FINDINGS......Page 31
INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION: TOWARDS GOVERNANCE IN A POSTNATIONAL POLITY?......Page 39
2. Conceptual Considerations: Analytical Framework, Design and Methodology......Page 49
UNIT OF ANALYSIS AND CASE SELECTION: GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES......Page 50
COUNTRY SELECTION: GERMANY, CANADA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES......Page 53
GROUP SELECTION: A MATRIX OF POLITICAL CLEAVAGES......Page 55
DEPENDENT VARIABLE: GROUP RESPONSES TO GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES......Page 58
METHODOLOGY AND CODING: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES......Page 63
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: TOWARDS HYPOTHESES ON GROUP RESPONSES......Page 65
INTRODUCTION: THE INTERNET AND ITS GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES......Page 75
ILLEGAL CONTENT ON THE INTERNET: GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE AND POLICY-CYCLES......Page 82
CRYPTOGRAPHY: DENATIONALIZATION CHALLENGE AND POLICY CYCLES......Page 100
CASES, PATTERNS, AND THEIR EXPLANATION: SOME HYPOTHESES......Page 115
4. Citizenship and Migration in Germany and the United States......Page 135
INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES AND GROUP SELECTION......Page 136
LABOR MIGRATION AND SOCIAL STANDARDS IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES......Page 139
POLITICAL ASYLUM IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE COLD WAR: GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE......Page 164
TOWARDS AN EXPLANATION OF SOCIETAL RESPONSES......Page 179
INTRODUCTION: GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE, POLICY CYCLES, AND GROUP SELECTION......Page 197
Responses of Political Groups to Climate Change: Germany......Page 207
EXPLAINING POLITICAL GROUP’S RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE—SOME HYPOTHESES......Page 245
DISCUSSION: POLITICS FROM ABOVE OR BELOW?......Page 251
INTRODUCTION......Page 267
POLITICS AS USUAL......Page 270
BEYOND THE USUAL......Page 273
AN IDEAL TYPE OF POLITICS OF DENATIONALIZATION......Page 283
HYPOTHESIZING THE POLITICS OF DENATIONALIZATION......Page 287
SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK......Page 299
TECHNICAL APPENDIX......Page 305
Bibliography......Page 317
Contributors......Page 339
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