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This Is The First Integrated Book-length Account Of Citizen Responses To The New Global Order. Based On A Comprehensive Survey, Administered At The End Of 2000, In Nine European And Nine Asian Countries, This Book Demonstrates The Diverse Responses To Globalisation, Within, And Between, Two Of The World's Major - And Most Globally Integrated - Regions. Globalisation, Public Opinion And The State Is A Pioneering Empirical Study, Drawing On 18,000 Interviews Across These 18 European And Asian Countries Supported By The Japanese Ministry Of Education. The Asia-europe Survey Is One Of The Largest Of Its Kind Ever Conducted, And Provides The Book With A Wealth Of Novel Data On Public Opinion And Social Attitudes That Identify The Linkages Between National/regional Policy Responses And The Political And Policy Orientations Of The Publics Affected. The Book Uses Theoretical Insights To Situate These Public Responses And Reactions To Globalisation; And It Addresses One Question In Particular: Do Nation-states Matter In How Citizens Come To View Regional And Global Engagement? Rather Than Offering Another Theory About Globalisation, This Book Presents Much-needed Empirical Findings That Help Us Decide Between Arguments About The Public Impact Of Globalisation Cross-nationally. This Book Breaks New Ground As There Is No Other Comprehensive Study In This Field. Globalisation And Public Opinion In Western Europe And East And South-east Asia / Ian Marsh -- Part I. Encountering And Assessing Globalisation. The Objective Impact Of Globalisation And Its Socio-political Context / Ian Marsh -- Exposure To Globalisation / Jean Blondel And Ian Marsh -- How The Public Evaluates Globalisation / Jean Blondel And Ian Marsh -- Citizens' Attitudes To International Organisations And Reactions To Globalisation / Jean Blondel -- Part Ii. Encountering And Responding To Globalisation. Identity, Inequality And Globalisation / Richard Sinnott -- Ideology And Globalisation / Ian Marsh -- Finding Global Solutions? How Citizens View Policy Problems And Their Solutions / Shaun Wilson And Takashi Inoguchi -- Globalisation And Political Participation / Ikuo Kabashima And Gill Steel -- Part Iii. Conclusion. Determinants Of Mass Attitudes To Globalisation / Richard Sinnott -- Globalisation And Citizen Attitudes To Politics / Ian Marsh -- Appendix I: Characteristics Of The Asia-europe Survey -- Appendix Ii: Profiles Of The Eighteen Countries Of The Asia-europe Survey -- Appendix Iii: The Asia-europe Survey. Edited By Takashi Inoguchi And Ian Marsh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.