03649nam 22006131 450 991097465590332120200514202323.0978147251474514725147429781472553744147255374810.5040/9781472553744(CKB)3880000000025870(MiAaPQ)EBC4427668(OCoLC)895073275(UtOrBLW)bpp09257092(UtOrBLW)BP9781472553744BC(Perlego)807230(EXLCZ)99388000000002587020140929d2013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierForming economic policy the case of energy in Canada and Mexico /Fen Osler HampsonLondon :Bloomsbury,2013.1 online resource (176 pages)Bloomsbury Academic collections : economicsIncludes index.Reprint. Originally published in 1986 by Frances Pinter (Publishers) Limited.9781472511744 1472511743 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. How Crises Change Political Values -- 3. Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Mexico -- 4. Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Canada -- 5. Mexico's Energy Policies in the Seventies and Eighties: an Analysis -- 6. Canada's Energy Policies in the Seventies and Eighties: an Analysis -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index"How do governments make key decisions on vital economic questions of national importance? Can they advance the national interest on issues that are highly politicized? How do they respond to competing pressures from the international and domestic environments? Forming Economic Policy explores these and other questions in Canada and Mexico, two very different countries which share a common vulnerability to the world economy. Using the case of energy, the book argues that policymakers will address the national interest, but only episodically with the onset of major national crises that invoke a higher and sustained sense of national priorities. These crises are frequently induced by the interaction of domestic and foreign political and economic forces. The conclusions are surprising. Despite profound political and economic differences between these two countries, policymakers have behaved in remarkably similar ways when arriving at key policy decisions. The explanation "which integrates two competing views of politics, the pluralist and the statist" has important implications with regard to the political processes in those states which, like Canada and Mexico, are exposed to the world economy and face problems of political legitimacy at home. Forming Economic Policy will appeal to students and teachers of political economy and comparative politics as well as to those interested in the politics of energy policy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Bloomsbury Academic collections : economics.Energy policyCanadaEnergy policyMexicoBusiness studies: generalCanadaEconomic policyMexicoEconomic policyEnergy policyEnergy policy351.007/2333.790971Hampson Fen Osler977098UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910974655903321Forming economic policy4474382UNINA