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Conclusion: domestic structures and strategies of foreign economic policy

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Peter J. Katzenstein
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An inventory of the objectives and instruments which characterize the differing political strategies of six advanced industrial states in the international economy yields three groups of states: the two Anglo-Saxon countries, mercantilist Japan, and the states of the European continent. Corresponding differences exist in the distinctive elements of domestic structure: the coalition between business and the state and the policy networks linking public and private sectors. An historical explanation of these differences is most appropriate. In the future, stresses in the relations between business and the state and contradictions between ruling coalitions and organized labor may lead to changes in political strategies.

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International Organization , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1977 , pp. 879 - 920
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1977

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