Globalization and institutions : redefining the rules of the economic game pt. 1. Globalization and national institutional change pt. 2. Globalization and transnational institution building This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions or global governance challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead the contributors to this book show that globalization is better perceived as a dual process of institutional change at the national level and institution building at the transnational level. Rich supporting empirical evidence is provided along with a theoretical conceptualization of the main actors mechanisms and conditions involved in trickle up and trickle down trajectories through which national institutional systems are being transformed and transnational rules emerge