Internalizing Globalization

SUSANNE SOEDERBERG is a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in the Development Studies Programme at Queen's University, Canada. She is author of The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South, and Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing Globalization. GEORG MENZ is Lecturer in Political Economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He studied at Michigan State University, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Pittsburgh. His research interests include interna

The book examines how distinct social structures, political cultures, patterns of party and interest group politics, classes, public policies, liberal democratic and authoritarian institutions, and the discourses that frame them, are being reshaped by political actors.This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of neoliberalism and a more market-oriented version of capitalism. The book examines how distinct social structures, political cultures, patterns of party and interest group politics, classes, public policies, liberal democratic and authoritarian institutions, and the discourses that frame them, are being reshaped by political actors. Chapters cover national experiences from Europe and North America to Asia and Latin America (Chile, Mexico, and Peru).