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Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV
The advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one in the late 1980s and 1990s. Jeffrey Hart's study demonstrates how nationalism and regionalism combined with conflicting ideas over technology to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The outcome has led to missed opportunities in developing new technologies. Hart's work contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.
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First published February 4, 2000
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Jeffrey A. Hart
20 books2 followersJeffrey A. Hart is emeritus professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research deals mainly with international politics and international political economy.
Born December 29, 1947, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Hart went to public schools in that city. From 1965 to 1969, he attended Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he majored in political science and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975.
His first teaching position was at Princeton University. He taught there from 1973 until 1980.
In 1980, he became a member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
He joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1981.
Most of his research in the past two and a half decades has been on the politics of international economic competitiveness in the advanced industrial nations. Between 1996 and 2001, he collaborated with Stefanie Lenway and Tom Murtha at the University of Minnesota on the world flat panel display industry. This research was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2001, he completed a project on globalization in collaboration with Aseem Prakash that resulted in the publication of three edited volumes. In 2004, he published a book on the politics of high definition television (HDTV). He was co-author with Joan Edelmann Spero of the 5th, 6th, and 7th edition of The Politics of International Economic Relations.
Born December 29, 1947, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Hart went to public schools in that city. From 1965 to 1969, he attended Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he majored in political science and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975.
His first teaching position was at Princeton University. He taught there from 1973 until 1980.
In 1980, he became a member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
He joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1981.
Most of his research in the past two and a half decades has been on the politics of international economic competitiveness in the advanced industrial nations. Between 1996 and 2001, he collaborated with Stefanie Lenway and Tom Murtha at the University of Minnesota on the world flat panel display industry. This research was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2001, he completed a project on globalization in collaboration with Aseem Prakash that resulted in the publication of three edited volumes. In 2004, he published a book on the politics of high definition television (HDTV). He was co-author with Joan Edelmann Spero of the 5th, 6th, and 7th edition of The Politics of International Economic Relations.
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