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Global restructuring and theoretical perspectives -- State, capital and labour -- Global restructuring : contesting neo-Gramscian perspectives

The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as different as China, Norway and Russia. By bundling economic resources, these countries have entered global markets through massive state-led investments. This transformation of states into global economic actors is historically unprecedented and presents a major challenge for how states relate to each other in the international system. Milan Babic examines how states have become major corporate owners in the global economy and unpacks the lasting effects of this on our understanding of the state and international politics. Drawing on research into the largest firm-level dataset on state ownership to date, in combination with in-depth historical and conceptual analysis, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the state in the global economy and its present and future consequences for international relations.

Argues that there is a link between the neoliberal model in the global economy & the deterioration of political & economic rights in Latin America, especially in Venezuela. There, the decline of political legitimacy & the growing impoverishment of the population are explained in part by the globalization process, but more so by its conjunction with state capital accumulation. Accumulation was at work prior to 1989 at the expense of increasing citizen participation in political decision making & redistributing economic resources. With globalization in the 1990s, the earlier state capital accumulation model was threatened, & the state unable to deal with internal violence. Living conditions deteriorated because of a predatory state & global predators, as evidenced by income & budget statistics. 4 Tables, 67 References. M. Pflum

Television programming is one means by which citizens gain access to the halls of government. A survey of state legislators finds that lawmakers generally support expanding television coverage of legislative proceedings to include gavel-to-gavel programming. Among the fifteen independent variables employed in this study to predict legislators' views, "public factors" - public confidence in the legislative institution and citizens' preference for more coverage - had the greatest impact on legislators' attitudes toward gavel-to-gavel public affairs programming. Overall, the findings are encouraging in terms of opening up the political process to citizens.