Introduction : bringing domestic institutions back in / Linda Weiss -- Disappearing taxes or the 'race to the middle'? Fiscal policy in the OECD / John Hobson -- Withering welfare? Globalisation, political economic institutions, and contemporary welfare states / Duane Swank -- Globalisation and...

Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy.