A conceptual framework for the analysis of global political change is presented and illustrated with examples drawn from the Cold War. The most important issues on an agenda, the critical issues, go through identifiable stages: genesis, crisis, ritualization, dormancy, decision making, and authoritative allocation. The effects of the different stages on behavior of international actors is examined in a preliminary fashion, and a theoretical rationale is offered. Each stage, treated in detail, relates to the others in terms of differences in behavior associated with each stage, the evolving of relationships among actors, and the resolution of issues. The concluding section elaborates the research implications.
Intro -- POLITICAL SPACE -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Political Space and Global Politics by Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones -- PART I: The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective -- 1. The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory by K. J. Holsti -- 2. Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History by Richard Little -- 3. The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics by Ken Dark -- 4. Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach -- Part II: Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships -- 5. Political Power and Geographical Scale by John Agnew -- 6. Mapping Global/Local Spaces by Robert Latham -- 7. Cartographies of Loathing and Desire: The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism by Stuart Corbridge -- PART III: Globalizing Trends in the World Economy -- 8. A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors by Saskia Sassen -- 9. Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money by Susan Strange -- 10. Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization by Ronen Palan -- PART IV: Shifting Patterns of Governance -- 11. Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space by R. J. Barry Jones -- 12. Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System by Mark A. Boyer -- 13. NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space by James N. Rosenau -- 14. Practicing Democracy Transnationally by Rey Koslowski and Antje Wiener -- Contributors -- SUNY series in Global Politics -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Lu en tant qu'économiste politique, les écrits d'Antonio Gramsci nous munient d'un vocabulaire qui permet de restructurer d'une façon productive les questions qui inspirent à l'étude du capitalisme canadien. Cet article fait le compte‐rendu des termes de référence d'une problématique Gramscienne, examine cinq études récentes sur la crise contemporaine globale qui signale un tournant analytique vers la pensée Gramscienne, et finalement incorpore ces perspectives dans le but de mettre à jour la situation canadienne. Pour les académiques canadiens, le défi posé par Gramsci est de réévaluer, en vue des développements historiques mondiaux, les formes spécifiques avec lesquelles les institutions canadiennes ont structuré le capital et organisé le consensus au Canada, de sonder les transformations présentes et récentes de ces formes, et d'évaluer les aspects positifs ainsi que les dangers que ces changements présentent pour les mouvements émancipatoires.Read as a political economist, Antonio Gramsci provides a vocabulary in terms of which the questions animating studies of Canadian capitalism can be fruitfully re‐framed. This paper first reviews the terms of reference for a Gramscian problematic, then examines five recent studies of the contemporary global crisis which signal an analytic turn toward Gramsci, and finally brings these perspectives to bear upon the case of Canada. For Canadian scholars, the challenge posed by Gramsci is to unravel, in view of world historical developments, the specific institutional forms in which capital has been structured and consent organized within Canada, to probe the recent and ongoing practical transformations in those forms, and to appraise the opportunities and dangers that these changes present for emancipatory movements.
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AbstractWe revisit work that has indicated that the presence and strength of political budget cycles depend on a range of conditioning factors. We point to the importance of voter time preference and argue that, in relatively poorer countries, high discount rates will lead impatient voters to value immediate consumption due to fiscal expansions over the future benefits from fiscally responsible policies. Consistent with this assertion, our empirical evidence, based on a sample of up to 67 low‐ and high‐income countries over the period 1995 to 2016, indicates that budget cycles emerge in countries with a GDP per capita below a threshold of around 30,000 PPP‐adjusted constant 2017 U.S. dollars. This goes beyond previous explanations of budget cycles based on voters with short memories who underestimate the costs of expansionary policies, voters with little experience with democracy or voters who are poorly informed about the competence or policy preferences of political candidates.
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