There appears to be a veritable industry of academic work on globalization, which reflects, in turn, the way in which this term has entered into common currency in the media and even in public discourse.

The issue of globaliza­tion, and especially the extent to which the process constrains the autonomy of the nation state and makes the pursuit of neo-liberal economic solutions and the marketization of all aspects of life inevitable, is a crucial one for at least two reasons.

First, and most important, the issue is crucial for the future of social democracy; if many of the proponents of the globalization thesis are right, then social democracy is doomed. Second, any consideration of the issue throws light on two of the crucial meta-theoretical questions in social science, the relationships between structure and agency and between the material and the ideational. As such, our aim here is to examine, mainly conceptually, but also empirically, the contention that globalization severely restricts the autonomy of the state. Our view is that it is a relationship which is both rarely unpacked and more complicated that most treatments assume.

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