Introduction : bringing domestic institutions back in / Linda Weiss -- Disappearing taxes or the 'race to the middle'? Fiscal policy in the OECD / John Hobson -- Withering welfare? Globalisation, political economic institutions, and contemporary welfare states / Duane Swank -- Globalisation and...

General opinion holds that globalisation limits the state's capacity for domestic government. This book questions the thesis that the state's role has been restricted. The contributors argue that globalisation can enable as well as constrain, and that its effects depend on the character of a...