The politics of high-tech growth : developmental network states in the global economy

List of tables List of abbreviations Preface Part I. Development in the Global Information Economy: 1. Networks of development: globalization, high technology, and the Celtic Tiger 2. State developmentalisms and capitalist globalizations 3. Explaining the Celtic Tiger Part II. Software and the Celtic Tiger: 4. 'Location Nation': remaking society for foreign investment 5. Indigenous innovation and the developmental network state 6. Making global and local 7. The class politics of the global region Part III. The Politics of the Developmental Network State: 8. Institutions of the developmental network state 9. Politics and change in developmental regimes 10. Developmental bureaucratic and network states in comparative perspective 11. Futures of the network state Appendix A. Methodology of the study Bibliography Index.