Mediating globalization: domestic institutions and industrial policies in the United States and Britain
In: SUNY series in global politics
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In: SUNY series in global politics
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 891-892
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 891-892
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 891
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Polity, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 107-131
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 261-285
ISSN: 1468-0491
This article explores how the relative centralization of decisionmaking authority can affect a societal group's ability to achieve its interests. It examines the US semiconductor industry's efforts to persuade the Reagan administration to press Japan on its import barriers and its firms' trade practices. I find that the industry's eventual success was facilitated by an institutional change that centralized the structure of decisionmaking authority. Centralization proved more favorable to the industry's influence in this case because it reduced the number of competing state interests involved in policymaking and concentrated authority in state units that shared the industry's preferences. To account for the change in this structure I focus on the interplay between government officials and policy windows. The analysis suggests that centralization may under some conditions be more conducive than decentralized structures to societal influence, and that modest institutional changes can have significant policy implications.
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 261
ISSN: 0952-1895
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 107
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 30, S. 107-131
ISSN: 0032-3497
Examines Thatcher government industrial policy before and after 1983; view that domestic structural conditions affected policy decision-making.
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 107-132
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Governance: an international journal of policy and administration and institutions, Band 10, S. 261-285
ISSN: 0952-1895
Examines industry efforts during the 1980s to persuade the administration to initiate bilateral trade talks with Japan, with the aim of obtaining a relaxation of import barriers and reform of trade practices deemed disadvantageous to US companies. 1982 High Technology Working Group and 1985 Unfair Trade Practices Petition.
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 237
ISSN: 1045-7097
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 399-424
ISSN: 1581-1980
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 34, Heft 7, S. 768-799
ISSN: 1552-3829
Students of institutional change pay insufficient attention to the conditions under which institutional reform produces unintended procedural and policy consequences. The authors contend that the broader institutional context in which an altered institution is embedded influences the likelihood and extent of such unintended outcomes. Three aspects of this environment are particularly important. First, a reformer's access to policy instruments may allow him or her to monitor compliance and sanction noncompliance with the altered institution. Second, normative understandings can reinforce or work against specific institutional reforms. Finally, the organization of decision-making authority within the state determines the ability of state and societal actors to derail institutional change and its intended consequences. Two empirical investigations illustrate the argument: congressional attempts in the 1980s to limit executive authority over U.S. policy in Nicaragua and the institutional reforms Margaret Thatcher implemented to advance a market-oriented industrial strategy.