Some Examples

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Introduction
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• Some Examples
• 1997 Currency crisis
• China and Wal-Mart
• CAFTA
• The Minutemen
• Global warming
• Global terrorism

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• The Big Issues
• Economic well being
• Security
• Community
• Democracy
• Environment
• Human rights

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• Key Terms
• Our focus is on the relationship between
  globalization and American public policy
• Globalization The integration of states through
  increasing contact, communication, and trade,
  creating a holistic, single global system in
  which the process of change increasingly binds
  people together in a common fate. Kegley and
  Wittkopf, World Politics Trend and
  Transformation

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• Public Policy
• The simple definition Solutions to problems on
  the public agenda
• The intentions and actions of government as they
  affect the lives of American citizens and others
• The premise of this class is that we cannot
  understand the problems facing America or how we
  try to solve them without taking account of
  globalization.

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• Public Policy
• Policy can be defined as solutions to problems on
  the public agenda
• Matters of wide public concern, not private
  affairs
• Public officials generally are involved
• Chronic problems, cyclical concerns, crisis
• Focus on OUTCOMES

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• Some Important Concepts
• Death of Distance
• Sovereignty
• Social Compact
• Citizenship
• The Race to the Bottom

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• Characteristics of Globalization
• Economic - growth of world trade, mobility of
  capital, institutions
• Cultural - homogenization, Americanization,
  corporate mass media
• Technological - satellite communications, cable,
  internet
• Environmental - global commons issues such as
  global warming
• Political - erosion of nation state, transfer of
  authority to multilateral organizations, global
  civil society

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• OK, so what is the problem?
• The Race to the Bottom, according to the critics
  of globalization
• Refers to reduction of workers wages,
  regulations on corporations, taxes, and support
  for social safety net
• Results from competition among different
  countries to attract and hold capital so their
  workers will have jobs
• Global markets force competition on the basis of
  lowest cost

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• Race to the Bottom
• Lowers wages and living standards
• Leads to environmental damage
• Disrupts communities
• Undermines democracy and rights of citizenship
• Inspires resistance movements against
  corporate-led globalization

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• Our Agenda
• Examine the facts on wages, incomes, inequality,
  environmental quality, and other indicators
• Review the debate over whether globalization
  makes things better or worse
• Expand the scope of the inquiry to include
  health, education, human rights, national
  security, culture,
• immigration
• Focus on the United States

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• Summary
• Our focus is on how globalization affects our
  ability to solve fundamental problems affecting
  human well being
• in the United States
• Globalization is about the emergence of a single
  world economy, culture, and political system
• The result is new issues on our public agenda,
  and new challenges for coping with problems
• Globalization generates intense debate, as our
  most important concerns are at stake