The nation-state in transformation
Subtitle: economic globalisation, institutional mediation and political values
By: edited by Michael Böss
Series: MatchPoints -- 1
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Århus [Denmark]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9788779344921
Subjects: Globalization; Political aspects; International economic relations; International economic integration; Economic aspects; Nation-state and globalization
Notes: Some papers were presented at a conference on "The Knowledge-Based Economy, Identities and the Transforming State," held at Aarhus University in Nov. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a new consensus / Michael Böss; title: The political economy of scale and nation, with special reference to Denmark / John L. Campbell and John A. Hall; title: The historical dimension of Ireland's road to modernisation and Europeanisation / Brian Girvin; title: It's not the economy, stupid; title: or is it? / David Marsh; title: The knowledge economy as a state project / Bob Jessop; title: Globalisation, the nation-state and the public sector / Francis Fukuyama; title: Negotiated governance and hybridity in small European countries : Ireland and Denmark / Rory O'Donnell; title: Addicted to growth : state, market and the difficult politics of development in Ireland / Seán Ó Riain; title: The competition state : Irish lessons / Peadar Kirby; title: Ireland's multiple interface-periphery development model : achievements and limits / Joseph Ruane; title: Globalisation and development : Ireland and Denmark in comparative perspective / Georg Sørensen; title: Responding to globalisation : changing the state strategy from infrastructural power to authoritarian liberal power / Lars Bo Kaspersen, Linda Thorsager; title: Pragmatic nationals : the character and roots of Danish Europragmatism / Michael Böss; title: The Nordic welfare model and the challenge of globalisation / Bjørn Hvinden; title: Social capital and the welfare state / Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen; title: Between democracy and good governance : a national-global quest / Henrik P. Bang; title: Social partnership in Ireland : diluting or deepening democracy? / Chris McInerney; title: General conclusions and perspectives / Michael Böss.