By Susanne Soederberg, Georg Menz, Philip G. Cerny

This booklet explores how a variety of international locations try to do something about the demanding situations of globalization. whereas the internalization of globalization proceeds in considerably alternative ways, there's a extensive technique of convergence happening round the politics of neoliberalism and a extra market-oriented model of capitalism. The e-book examines how specified social buildings, political cultures, styles of celebration and curiosity staff politics, sessions, public guidelines, liberal democratic and authoritarian associations, and the discourses that body them, are being reshaped by way of political actors. Chapters hide nationwide reports from Europe and North the United States to Asia and Latin the US (Chile, Mexico, and Peru).

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10. The new politics of neoliberalism Opposition to neoliberalism Despite the continued intellectual hegemony of the neoliberal paradigm in academies and government ministries around the world, however, the late 28 Internalizing Globalization 1990s witnessed growing public dissent and protest against the unmitigated implementation of free trade agreements, the opaque and distinctly undemocratic decision-making structure of international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, the apparent reduction of national sovereignty, and the numerous more extreme social and political ramifications of liberalization, privatization and deregulation.

Other authors have examined different pillars of the German model, including features such as a system of industrial relations based on ‘co-determination’ and relatively consensual wage bargaining (Hassel, 1999; Thelen, 2001; Hassel and Streeck, 2004) along with a long-term oriented finance system involving cross share-holdings by major banks that served both as lenders and partial stakeholders of businesses (Hausbanken) (Lütz, 2000). This evolving network of institutions was a direct reflection of the respective balance of power between organized labor and capital, and the Social Democratic (SPD) and Christian Democratic (CDU/CSU) parties.

In terms of the institutional structure, at least two of the Rhineland model’s pillars are in the process of unravelling, owing to a combination of external challenges and conscious internal changes. For reasons of space constraint, these shall be examined only very briefly. The emblematic long-term oriented finance system involved the three major banks serving as lenders and partial shareholders in businesses, permitting less emphasis on equity culture, and a long-term profit orientation often superior to precarious Anglo-American ‘short-termism’.

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