Public Policy in the Age of Globalization

Responses to Environmental and Economic Crises

H. Hveem, K. Nordhaug, H. Hveem, K. Nordhaug

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9780333998489
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403914316
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book focuses on changes in environmental and economic policies in six developing countries. It shows how domestic politics interact with international actors such as multilateral institutions. It offers lively accounts of the behaviour of political actors, interest groups and the civil society, in particular environmentalists. It shows how ideas such as those of neoliberal economics affect policymaking, in particular during or after crisis, but also how social protest and demands for sustainable development are mobilized.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: National Institutions and the Politics of Adjustment to Globalization
• 2 Shooting for Reform. The Interplay of External and Domestic Constraints in Argentina
• 3 The Limits to Liberalization: Adjustment, the Environment and Political Reaction in Costa Rica
• 4 Weaving through Paradoxes: Democratization, Globalization and Environment Politics in South Korea
• 5 Industry Interests, Institutional Inertia and Activism. Late Liberalization and the Environment in India
• 6 Reforms as a Domestic and International Process. Liberalization and Industry in the Ivory Coast
• 7 Sunset or Sunrise? Regime Change and Institutional Adjustment in South Africa – a Critical Analysis
• 8 Summary and Conclusions: Adjusting Trade Liberalization and Environmental Protection Demands in an Era of Globalization
• References
• Index