| dc.contributor.author | van der Westhuizen, Janis (Johannes Erasmus). | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:35:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ49296 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55679 | |
| dc.description | By analyzing how intermediation processes, state strategies and the structure of the international political economy interact, this study analyses how state elites in Malaysia and South Africa attempt to minimize the socially disruptive effects of globalization. Drawing on the competition state model, the case is made for societal corporatism in South Africa and patron-client rentierism in Malaysia as vital intermediation processes, whereby the cross-pressures generated by international expectations and domestic demands are managed, thereby facilitating the transformation towards the competition state model in ethnically deeply divided societies. | en_US |
| dc.description | Apart from highlighting the similarities and differences between the Malaysian and South African political economies, this study also introduces the significance of marketing power as a particular competition state strategy whereby state elites appropriate the global visibility of the domestic film and popular music and especially sport industries to both externally "market" the country and internally reinforce a sense of national identity. By directing attention to the adaptability of the state (and its associated economy and civil society) to the challenges of globalization, this study underscores the extent to which the state is both a vehicle of globalization and is itself reconstituted by it. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1999. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, General. | en_US |
| dc.title | Malaysia, South Africa and the marketing of the competition state: Globalization and states' response. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
