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The Stability of the Globalized Welfare State, to influence government policy by threatening to disinvest and/or abandon states that ignore their demands is usually identified as the biggest challenge posed by openness. While acceding to these demands — lower taxes, fewer/weaker regulations, reduced spending, flexible labour markets — might hav

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