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1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables ; Acknowledgments; Common Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Neoliberalism, Trade Expansion, and Class Agency; Imagining a Globalized World; Where Corporate Networks Meet the State: An Anecdote and a Beginning; Who Rules? A Relational Inquiry; Data and Analysis, in Brief; Outline of Chapters; 2 Corporate Political Unity and Class Agency; Sources of Intercorporate Unity ; When Corporations Are Not a Class: The Atomistic Perspective |
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Emergence of a Structural Perspective on Corporate Control: Board InterlocksThe Network Approach to Class Cohesion; Shifting Conditions of Class Cohesion: Looking for Unity in the Wrong Places; An Expanded Conceptualization of ClassAgency ; Two Broad Conditions for Class and Class Agency; Contingent Class and State Relations; Summary Model; 3 A Critical Sociology of US Trade Policy; Corporations and American Trade Policy; Trade Politics after the RTAA; Why the Decline in Protectionism in the 1970s? Theoretical Limits of Trade Policy Research |
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Trade Interests and Corporate Political Activism: Company or Class?Models of Corporate Political Action in Trade Policy Research; Discussion and Hypotheses; Class-Cohesion Sources of Corporate Political Activism; 4 Forging a Neoliberal Trade Policy Network, 1967-1994; Historical Conjuncture, Institutional Change, and Class Agency; Global Institutions and American Trade Policy: The Cusp of a New Economic Era; Mobilizing to Liberate Trade and Finance: The Emergency Committee for American Trade; Internationalists Take Stride: Setting the Trade Agenda and Liberating the Dollar |
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Transforming the State: Lobbying for the 1974 Trade ActRise of the Roundtable: Moderates on the Ropes; Consolidating a Neoliberal Trade Policy Network, 1983-1994; A Neoliberal Trade Policy Network: Defending the North American Free Trade Agreement; The State Captain Intercorporate Network; China PNTR and Beyond; Discussion: The Corporate Neoliberal Policy Network; 5 Inside the State: Corporate Participation in Trade Policy; Fortune and Forbes 500 (FF500) Company-Level Analyses; Statistical Methods: Firm-Level Models; Participation in Trade Advisory Committees |
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Participation in Temporary Political AlliancesParticipation in Congressional Testimony; Contrasting Corporate Political Networks; Another Glance at the Business Roundtable; Discussion; 6 Fusing Class Agency to a State Trade Policy Apparatus; Measuring Corporate Unity: Dyads; Statistical Methods: Dyadic Models; Dependent Variables; Organizational Predictors; Network Variables; Corporate Trade Activism in the Executive Branch: Modeling Corporate Unity in Trade Advisory Committees (TACs); Corporate Trade Activism in the Public Sphere: Corporate Unity in the Trade Policy Alliances |
| Summary |
Through historical narrative, this book explains how neoliberal globalization was actively constructed over decades by both state and class actors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Corporations, American -- Political aspects.
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Corporations -- Political activity -- United States.
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Neoliberalism -- United States.
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United States -- Commerce.
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United States -- Foreign economic relations.
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United States -- Economic policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. |
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Commerce |
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Corporations -- Political activity |
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Economic policy |
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International economic relations |
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Neoliberalism |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Darves, Derek, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dreiling, Michael C. Agents of neoliberal globalization. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107133969 (DLC) 2016026288 (OCoLC)953981156 |
| ISBN |
9781316795156 (electronic bk.) |
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1316795152 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316460115 |
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1316460118 |
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9781107133969 |
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1107133963 |
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9781316793718 |
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1316793710 |
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9781107591332 (paperback) |
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