Layna Mosley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina. From 1999 to 2004, she was a member of faculty at the University of Notre Dame.

• 1. National governments and global capital: a review and a recasting; 2. Financial market influence on government policy: theory and hypotheses; 3. Financial market influence in developed nations: a quantitative assessment; 4. Financial market-government relations in emerging economies; 5. Politics meets markets: domestic responses to financial market pressures; 6. Alternative domestic responses: changes to financial market-government relations; 7. History repeating itself? Financial markets and national government policies before the first World War; 8. Financial market-government relations in the twenty-first century.

'The book is a very interesting empirical case-study … well structured … offers a rare and highly relevant insight into the thinking and judgments of institutional investors … Mosley offers considerable empirical depth and goes beyond the generalizations often employed in other studies within the wider discourse of how globalization has affected national policy autonomy. She offers an important contribution to the growing literature on how domestic economies interact with the wider global economy and how these two arenas influence each other at different points in time.' International Affairs