Thurs, 3/4/04

            Globalization

            I. What is it?
            II. the Problem- Popular View
                A) Embedded Liberal Compromise
                B) Teeple, Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
                C) Greider, One World, Ready or Not
                D) Retrenchment
                E) Race to the Bottom
            III.  the Evidence -Academic View
                A) Economist- Golden Straightjacket & Public Preferences (not on reserve)
                B) Greider- retrenchment difficult
                C) Rodrik- Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
                D) Kitschelt, Lange, Marks, & Stephens- "Convergence & Divergence in ACDs"
                        -3 possibilities
                        -trends toward convergence, but path-dependent responses