@inbook{10.3138/9781442683396.12, ISBN = {9780802083883}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442683396.12}, abstract = {Keynes is dead! Fordism is finished! Income disparities are increasing!¹ Society is polarized! Corporate capitalism has carried off a silent coup!² The nation-state has been dismantled!³ and shrunk!⁴In the light of these dire diagnoses, citizens everywhere are experiencing high levels of anxiety concerning the social cohesion, economic performance, and political viability of their state structures. In Asia, the devastating combination of currency crises and government austerity imposed by the International Monetary Fund has shaken these newly industrializing statesʹ capacity to promote their interests. In the far more stable context created by the European Union, its fifteen member states share}, author = {Stephen Clarkson}, booktitle = {Who is Afraid of the State?: Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power}, pages = {163--198}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {The Multi-centred State: Canadian Government under Globalizing Pressures}, year = {2001} }