This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of neoliberalism and a more market-oriented version of capitalism. The book examines how distinct social structures, political cultures, patterns of party and interest group politics, classes, public policies, liberal democratic and authoritarian institutions, and the discourses that frame them, are being reshaped by political actors. Chapters cover national experiences from Europe and North America to Asia and Latin America (Chile, Mexico, and Peru).

MARK EVANS Professor of Public Policy, and Head of the Department of Politics, University of York, UK BUI DUC HAI Head of the Department of International Co-operation, Institute of Social Sciences, Hochiminh City, Vietnam STEPHEN MCBRIDE Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director, Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Canada PAUL MCVEIGH Lectures in International Political Economy and European Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK ANASTASIA NESVETAILOVA Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Politics, University of Sussex, UK GUILLERMO RUIZ TORRES Doctoral Candidate at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, and Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research, Germany SVEN STEINMO Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA MARCUS TAYLOR Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada