Globalizing Interests: Pressure Groups And

Globalizing Interests is an innovative study of globalization "from inside," looking at the reaction of nationally constituted interest groups to challenges produced by the denationalization process. The contributors focus on business associations, trade unions, civil rights organizations, and right-wing populists from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, and examine how they have responded to three extremely globalized issue areas: the Internet, migration, and climate change. What they find is that "the politics of denationalization" is a new game with new rules, new teams, and surprisingly broad support for governance beyond the nation state. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Globalizing Interests - An Introduction	p. 1
On Globalisation: Broad Definitions, Methodological Nationalism and Structural Shortcuts	p. 2
From Interdependence to Globalisation and Denationalisation	p. 6
Avoiding Methodological Nationalism: Societal Responses to Denationalization	p. 11
Avoiding Structural Shortcuts: Conceptual Framework and Cases	p. 13
Hypotheses and Findings	p. 21
Instead of a Conclusion: Towards Governance in a Post-National Polity?	p. 29
Conceptual Considerations: Analytical Framework, Design and Methology	p. 39
Unit of Analysis and Case Selection: Governance Challenges	p. 40
Country Selection: Germany, Canada, Great Britain and the US	p. 43
Group Selection: A matrix of political cleavages	p. 45
Dependent Variable: Group Responses to Governance Challenges	p. 48
Methodology and Coding: Qualitative and quantitative approaches	p. 53
Independent Variables: Towards Hypotheses on Group Responses	p. 54
Internet Politics: Responses to Illegal Content and Cryptography in Germany and Canada	p. 65
Introduction: The Internet and its Governance Challenges	p. 65
Illegal Content on the Internet: Governance Challenge and Policy-Cycle	p. 72
Cryptography: Denationalization Challenge and Policy-Cycle	p. 90
Cases, Patterns and their Explanation: Some Hypotheses	p. 105
Citizenship and Migration in Germany and the United States	p. 125
Introduction to the Case Studies and Group Selection	p. 126
Labor Migration and Social Standards in Germany and the United States	p. 129
Political Asylum in Germany and the United States after the Cold War: Governance Challenge	p. 154
Towards an Explanation of Societal Responses	p. 169
Politics from Above or Below? Climate Politics in Germany and Great Britain	p. 187
Introduction: Governance Challenge, Policy Cycles, and Group Selection	p. 187
Responses of Political Groups to Climate Change: Germany	p. 197
Explaining Political Group's Responses to Climate Change-Some Hypotheses	p. 235
Discussion: Politics From Above or Below?	p. 241
Conclusions: The Politics of Denationalization	p. 257
Introduction	p. 257
Politics as Usual	p. 260
Beyond the Usual	p. 263
An Ideal Type of Politics of Denationalisation	p. 273
Hypothesising the Politics of Denationalisation	p. 277
Summary and Outlook	p. 289
Technical Appendix	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 307
Contributors	p. 329
Index	p. 331
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