Jürgen R. Grote – Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments

Over the past few decades the political systems in advanced industrial societies have sailed through turbulent times. The globalization and liberalization of markets -driven in part by a revolution in communication technologies -coincided with an unprecedented mobility of capital, goods and services as well as increasing dependence of national polities on political and economic processes beyond their immediate control. Although these changes did not seal the end of the nation state, as some