1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451666203321

Autore

Breznitz Dan

Titolo

Innovation and the State : Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland / / Dan Breznitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-300-15340-6

1-281-73519-1

9786611735197

0-300-13774-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 262 p.) ) : ill

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Information technology - Israel

Information technology - Taiwan

Information technology - Ireland

Electronic books.

Israel Economic policy

Taiwan Economic policy

Ireland Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Plurality, Choice, and the Politics of Industrial Innovation -- 2. The Development of the IT Industry in Israel: Maximization of R&D as an Industrial Policy -- 3. The Development of the IT Industry in Taiwan: Public Research Institutions as Growth Impetus? -- 4. A Misunderstood "Miracle": The State and the Growth of the IT Industry in Ireland -- Conclusion: Comparing Choices and Consequences in Rapid Innovation-Based Industrialization -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new



Information Technologies (IT) by using different business models and carving out unique positions in the global IT production networks. In this book Dan Breznitz asks why economies of different countries develop in different ways, and his answer relies on his exhaustive research into the comparative experiences of Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland-states that made different choices to nurture the growth of their IT industries.The role of the state in economic development has changed, Breznitz concludes, but it has by no means disappeared. He offers a new way of thinking about state-led rapid-innovation-based industrial development that takes into account the ways production and innovation are now conducted globally. And he offers specific guidelines to help states make advantageous decisions about research and development, relationships with foreign firms and investors, and other critical issues.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458979503321

Autore

Pankowski Rafal

Titolo

The populist radical right in Poland : the patriots / / RafaÅ Pankowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15097-4

1-282-57021-8

9786612570216

0-203-85656-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy

Disciplina

320.5309438

320.5409438

324.243803

Soggetti

Political parties - Poland

Conservatism - Poland

Populism - Poland

Right and left (Political science)

Electronic books.

Poland Politics and government 1945-1980

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introductory remarks; 2 Pre-Communist legacies; 3 Communist period legacy; 4 After Communism; 5 The League of Polish Families and its integral nationalism; 6 Self-Defence: Radical populism; 7 The anti-liberalism of Law and Justice; 8 Nationalist populism in power: The 2005-2007 experiment and beyond; 9 Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal dynamics and the historical, political, social and cultural context that has made it possible. From political obscurity to the heart of mainstream politics, the recent rise of the extreme right in the Polish context surprised many observers. In the 1990s Poland was usually referred to as a country without significant extremist or populist movements. It was considered to be a stable, even i