Product Description: This work assesses how information technology will work in people's home in the near future. Among the topics it covers are home automation, electronic messaging, interactive compact-disk multimedia products and other innovations in home consumption of information technology products...read more

Product Description: The product of detailed empirical research into the politics of the electronics industry in Britain, France, and Germany, this book applies the Weberian theory of social closure to analyze competitive struggles in the industry. It shows how different combinations of market closure and competition arise from variations in technology, economic structure, and political regime and how general processes such as trade liberalization and technological change produce very different outcomes according to the specific features of the industry in its national context...read more

Product Description: F3Organized Interests and the State represents a new application of corporatist research, to the study of how public policies are formed in Western democracies. Cawson shifts the focus of corporatist theory from the macro-level concerning broad societal trends and comparisons of national systems to the subnational level, bringing countries such as the UK and Canada within the parameters of corporatist analysis...read more