Political Leadership in a Global Age: The Experiences of France and Norway FROM THE PUBLISHER
Responses to globalisation in politics and governance at national, regional and local levels of government in France and Norway are explored in this engaging study. France and Norway are European contrasts in most respects: The former is a central force in European integration, the latter is a sceptical outsider, one represents a Great Power tradition, the other small state internationalism. Both are highly developed welfare states, however, and both feel that globalisation is posing a threat to existing welfare arrangements. What are the similarities and differences between the two countries with regard to the way the globalisation debate is framed? Does globalisation drive a convergence of governance and leadership? The latter issue is discussed against a background of updated information on the development of politics across levels of government.
About the Author: About the Editors: Harald Baldersheim, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway and Jean-Pascal Daloz, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Bordeaux, France
SYNOPSIS
Collaborative contact and meetings between scholars from the political science departments at the universities of Bordeaux and Oslo has been ongoing since the early 1980s. This volume is a result of a 2000 seminar in Oslo and a followup meeting in Bordeaux in 2001. Fourteen scholars contribute 15 essays exploring and comparing the political responses of the two countries to globalization, the degree to which institutional change is driven by globalization and the extent to which globalization drives a convergence of political forms, and the role of leadership in framing responses at the national, regional, and local levels of government. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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