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• 1. Introduction: The dynamics of global labour division
• 2. The field of global trade: IGOs, NGOs and transnational corporations
• 3. The principles of global trade: The World Trade Organization
• 4. Development and inequality under the regime of free trade: What do we know?
• 5. Global labour division, development and inequality-- with Christian Dressel
• 6. Conclusion: Development and inequality in world society.
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Global free trade is one of the most controversial phenomena of our time. Richard Munch offers a new theory of global labour division to explain deeper transformations in the production and distribution of wealth brought about by global free trade. He then carries out and analyzes empirical investigations based on this theory.
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• Introduction: Struggling for Excellence in the Academic Field
• 1. The New Rules of Science: From Gift Exchange to the Shanghai World League of Universities
• 2. The Entrepreneurial University: From Homo Academicus to Homo Oeconomicus
• 3. Constructing Excellence by Evaluation
• 4. The Monopoly Mechanism in Science
• 5. From Competition to Stratification: Universities in the Struggle for Funds, Staff and Students
• 6. The Allocation of Funds and International Fellows Among Universities: Publication Performance versus Accumulated Capital
• 7. The Allocation of Funds and Reputation Among Departments: Publication Performance versus Accumulated Capital. Conclusion: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence. Appendix.
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This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific community. The result is a sharpening institutional stratification of the field. This stratification is produced and continuously reproduced by the intensified struggle for funds with the shrinking of block grants and the growing significance of competitive funding, as well as the increasing impact of international and national rankings on academic research and teaching. The increased allocation of funds on the basis of performance leads to overinvestment of resources at the small top and underinvestment for the broad mass of universities in the middle and lower ranks. There is a curvilinear inverted u-shaped relationship of investments and returns in terms of knowledge production. Paradoxically, the intrusion of the economic logic and measures of managerial controlling into the academic field imply increasing inefficiency in the allocation of resources to universities. The top institutions suffer from overinvestment, the rank-and-file institutions from underinvestment. The economic inefficiency is accompanied by a shrinking potential for renewal and open knowledge evolution.
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• Introduction: Inclusion and exclusion in the emerging world society
• 1. Economic change: from incremental to radical innovation
• 2. The change of solidarity: the causes and consequences of international labour division
• 3. Symbolic change: the new cult of the individual
• 4. Institutional change: liberal, conservative and egalitarian adjustment to international labour division
• 5. Relative exclusion and disintegration: convergence in the liberal competition state? Conclusion: The interdependent change of economy, solidarity, politics and justice.
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This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker solidarity as it moves from collective national welfare to a transnational inclusion of workers from various links in the production chain. Examining three types of welfare regimes within the USA, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the author addresses how and why globalization is furthering the change from the welfare state to the competition state. The book considers in particular the change to solidarity taking place because of the internationalization of labour division; a change away from the segmented and differentiated system of nation states with strong internal national solidarity to broader, more inclusive and cross-border labour identity and inclusion. Analysing the deeper moral consequences of a globalised labour society, such as the paradigms of inclusion and justice, this book considers the implications of transnational labour on national welfare politics, and looks at the increasing significance of the transnational and national politics of inclusion in social policy, education, minority rights, immigration and gender equality. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, sociology and social policy studying welfare state change.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. European Regulation: Towards an Adversarial Process
• 3. European Law: Constructing a Liberal Society by Jurisdiction
• 4. The French Dilemma: Post-national Republicanism against Economic Liberalism
• 5. The German Dilemma: Constitutional Federalism against Unconstitutional Supranationalism
• 6. The British Dilemma: Free Trade and Domestic Parliamentary Sovereignty against Foreign Supranational Rule
• 7. Conclusion: Constitutional Liberalism as a Model for the Semantic Construction of Europe?
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This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization. The integration of Europe is a process of fundamental social change: a process of constructing a European society and of deconstructing the national societies. Munch demonstrates that there is a movement away from republican and representative features of a democracy and towards liberal and pluralistic features. The book illustrates this change in the nature of European political regulation, European jurisdiction and the intellectual debates in France, Germany and Britain on legitimising the emerging system of multilevel governance. He discusses how far the new European regime of liberal governmentality converges with the US-American type of constitutional liberalism. Following a sociological approach, the book focuses on identifying the causes, features and consequences of the fundamental social change taking place in the process of European integration. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students from political science, sociology, law and philosophy interested in political theory, comparative politics, international relations and political communication as well as practitioners of policy-making in governments, administration, parties, associations and the media.
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Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity in four Western nations (Britain, France, Germany and the US). Munch's analysis spans several centuries of historical and political development. While ethics has played a clear role in the West's transition to modernity, he shows that its role has varied substantially and that it has influenced the development of each nation's political and social institutions. The book begins with an assessment of the ethics of the West in contrast with the East. Munch then looks at the formation of the ethics of modernity from ancient Judaism to ascetic Protestantism and modern secularized culture. "The Ethics of Modernity" builds a systematic reconstruction of the ethical formation of modernity in its different stages and variations, concluding with current globalization trends.
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Based on intensive, long-term study, this comparative book traces the role of ethics in the formation of modernity in four Western nations (the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany).
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• Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Formation and Transformation of Nations, Collective Identities and Citizenship Britain: A Nation Emerging from Civil Society France: A Nation Emerging from the State United States: A Nation Emerging from Voluntary Association Germany: A Nation Emerging from Ethnic and Cultural Heritage The Transformation of Collective Identities and Citizenship: Toward European Civil Ties and Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This title discusses the formation of nationhood and citizenship and their transformation in the global age. The different collective identities which evolved, affected particularly by immigration, in Britain, France, the United States and Germany are outlined in a historical, genetic and comparative perspective with special emphasis on the case of Germany. It looks at the question of transnational civil ties and the identities which emerge during the process of European integration and how they relate to national and sub-national identities.
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• Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Formation and Transformation of Nations, Collective Identities and Citizenship Britain: A Nation Emerging from Civil Society France: A Nation Emerging from the State United States: A Nation Emerging from Voluntary Association Germany: A Nation Emerging from Ethnic and Cultural Heritage The Transformation of Collective Identities and Citizenship: Toward European Civil Ties and Identity Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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This title discusses the formation of nationhood and citizenship and their transformation in the global age. The different collective identities which evolved, affected particularly by immigration, in Britain, France, the United States and Germany are outlined in a historical, genetic and comparative perspective with special emphasis on the case of Germany. It looks at the question of transnational civil ties and the identities which emerge during the process of European integration and how they relate to national and sub-national identities.
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