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Hay, Colin and Watson, Matthew (1999) Globalisation : 'sceptical' notes on the 1999 Reith lectures. Political Quarterly, Vol.70 (No.4). pp. 418-425. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.00265 ISSN 0032-3179.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.00265
Abstract
The contemporary debate concerning the limits of feasible public policy is invariably conducted in the somewhat sinister shadow cast by the image of globalisation. To have no opinion on globalisation is effectively to disqualify oneself from having anything to say about the way our world looks as we reach the millennium. The BBC’s recent Reith Lectures are therefore wholeheartedly to be welcomed for opening a public arena in which to conduct a debate whose significance could scarcely be overstated.1 In so doing, it offers the opportunity, if not to democratise globalisation, then at least to democratise the discussion of globalisation. Whether intentional or not, the BBC has made it possible to extend and refocus the debate beyond the narrow terms of political and academic reference in which it is so frequently cast, thereby rendering it accessible to those on whose futures it will impinge most directly. Moreover, in Anthony Giddens, the programmes’ producers could have made no better choice to lead the widening of the debate within the public domain.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Giddens, Anthony, Reith lectures, Globalization -- Political aspects, Globalization -- Social aspects, Economics -- Political aspects | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Political Quarterly | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0032-3179 | ||||
Official Date: | October 1999 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.70 | ||||
Number: | No.4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 418-425 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-923X.00265 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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