POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Decommodification, Transpiration, Euroscepticism
11 Apr 2017
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Why does european nation-state need saving: globalization: driven by change, first technological, then economic, political, societal, interconnected and interdependence means that problems are global in scale, populism a response to diminished capacity of states. Turning back to the people and the nation, region. Seen in euro-skepticism, fear in immigration and labour market. More liberal: more open borders and civil rights all go together. Cultures being brought closer together an d countries becoming reliant on one another. Time frame of affects allows better digestion by incoming society: better understand how to reinforce its walls . Globalization usually brings down walls, millions of actors driving it together. Common market for a bigger market creation: tax rates to the bottom: lowering rates to be more competitive, ireland: corporate flat tax at 10% Other countries depend on income at different rates, much higher than. Multinational corporations park their companies in dublin to get taxed.
