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Book SynopsisProducing globalisation attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation.
Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating study of two very different economies and their domestic responses to globalization. It contrasts the largely apolitical debate in Ireland - with a population enjoying such absolute gains that few thought of winners and losers - with the more politicised response in Greece, with its confrontational, fragmented and particularistic pattern of interest representation. The comparison will appeal to those endeavouring to understand the politics of globalisation and to those interested in comparative institutional analysis. At the same time, the book offers a framework by which we can understand how a discourse on globalisation can become 'hegemonic'. Antoniades displays a command of diverse literatures and an impressive ability to synthesise them to good effect. Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Theory and agents
1. Hegemonic discourse communication: theory and methodology
2. Greece and Ireland as social agents in the 1990s
Part II: Institutional reproduction and social transformation: the hegemonic discourse of globalisation in action, 1995-2001
3. The globalisation discourse in Greece
4 . The globalisation discourse in Ireland
Part III: Conclusions
5. Different facets of globalisation discourse
6. Explaining facets of the hegemonic: political economy, domestic institutions and beyond
Epilogue
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