The term ‘glocal’ seems to have originated in business circles, often attributed to the Japanese business practice of expanding global enterprise by focusing on local conditions. Of late it also comes to mean how local actors can organize activities in the locality to counter the effects of globalization on economic and social vitality. Some may […]
When James O’Connor (2002 [1973]) first wrote The Fiscal Crisis of the State in 1973, later followed by Erik Olin Wright’s (1977) Class, Crisis and the State, progressive and radical scholars were debating whether or not there was a relative autonomy of the state (see, for instance, Miller 1986) in contrast to Marx’s position that […]
First, the good news: President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the next Justice of the US Supreme Court (by the time this appears in print, Judge Sotomayor will presumably have been approved and is now sitting on the US Supreme Court). A native of the Bronx, New York and the child of Puerto […]