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The Limits of Politics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Susan Strange
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MY POINT OF DEPARTURE IS ONE THAT HAPPENS TO BE RATHER appropriate for a lecture sponsored by the journal Government and Opposition. It is that the political choices open to governments these days have been so constricted by those forces of structural change often referred to as ‘globalization’ that the differences that used to distinguish government policies from opposition policies are in process of disappearing.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1995 , pp. 291 - 311
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1995

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