Does Economic Globalization Influence the US Policy Mood?: A Study of US Public Sentiment, 1956–2011

Owen, Erica; Quinn, Dennis P.

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“…Globalisation is in many ways the buzzword of the twenty‐first century and is often hailed or blamed for cultural, economic and political changes all over the world. In the political sphere, globalisation is also considered to have an important impact on the political preferences and electoral behaviour of Western citizens (e.g., Hellwig & Samuels ; Owen & Quinn ). Some go as far as to declare a new cleavage between winners and losers of globalisation, on par with or even replacing the old cleavages related to class or religion.…”

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Old wine in new bottles? Reassessing the effects of globalisation on political preferences in Western Europe

Langsæther

Stubager

2019

European J Political Res

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In both public and scholarly debates, globalisation has recently been accredited with a massive impact on the political preferences and electoral behaviour of Western citizens. Some go as far as to declare a new cleavage between winners and losers of globalisation, driven, for example, by individuals’ exposure to international competition and their degree of national as opposed to cosmopolitan identification. Extant tests of this argument have, however, relied on class and education as proxies for these processes. In contrast, this study provides a direct test of the influence of the globalisation processes on attitudes to economic distribution, the European Union and immigration as well as on vote choice across nine West European countries. The results show that variables tapping the core aspects of globalisation have relatively little impact on attitudes and vote choice; are largely unable to account for the effects of class and education; and do not seem to lead to the establishment of new divisions between winners and losers within or across classes. Rather, the winners and losers of globalisation seem to be the traditional winners and losers with respect to material positions and political influence in modern Western societies – that is, those placed higher as opposed to lower in the class and education hierarchies. In this way, the proposed cleavage between winners and losers of globalisation may seem to be rather much like old wine in new bottles.

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Old wine in new bottles? Reassessing the effects of globalisation on political preferences in Western Europe

Langsæther

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2019

European J Political Res

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“…11 If the public opinion-policy linkage indeed has decreased, at first glance then it seems plausible that economic globalization has played a role. The time period considered in this debate corresponds closely with the large relative increase in U.S. global trade, with global trade nearly tripling over the past 30 years (Owen and Quinn 2016). Certainly, the most prominent theories of economic globalization explicitly suggest that the power of the public over policy will be directly affected by increasing international market involvement and competition.…”

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Does Global Market Integration Weaken Opinion‐Policy Congruence in the American States?

Anderson

Krueger

2016

Politics & Policy

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Theories of economic globalization suggest that public opinion‐public policy congruence should be affected by a state's degree of integration with international markets. With as much attention researchers have given to the opinion‐policy linkage in the American states, it is surprising that this literature has neglected these well‐known globalization frameworks. We take advantage of the wide variation in U.S. states’ integration in global markets, public policies, and political orientations of citizens, to assess whether global market integration depresses the association between citizen opinion and public policies. Using three decades of state‐level data, our results suggest that high global market integration does not attenuate the relationship between state opinion and state public spending. Not only does this finding run counter to the well‐known policy convergence thesis, but our results also suggest that the association between opinion and policy in the American states may be strongest under conditions of high global market integration. Related Articles http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12150/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12115/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12075/full Related Media https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/tpp-copyright-trap-our-last-stand-against-undemocratic-international-agreements http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/04/22/afl-cio_president_richard_trumka_tpp_designed_to_be_infinitely_expandable_may_be_the_last_trade_agreement_we_negotiate.html

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“…For instance, legislators are less likely to vote in favour of free trade agreements when a greater share of their constituency is vulnerable to offshoring (Owen 2017). In addition, competition from trade and the activity of multinational firms shapes demand for redistributive policies in the United States, which in turn influences social spending (Owen and Quinn 2016).…”

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Women Shaping Global Economic Governance

González¹,

Jansen²

2019

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The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a network of over 1,200 research economists based mostly in European universities. The Centre's goal is twofold: to promote world-class research, and to get the policy-relevant results into the hands of key decision-makers. CEPR's guiding principle is 'Research excellence with policy relevance'. A registered charity since it was founded in 1983, CEPR is independent of all public and private interest groups. It takes no institutional stand on economic policy matters and its core funding comes from its Institutional Members and sales of publications. Because it draws on such a large network of researchers, its output reflects a broad spectrum of individual viewpoints as well as perspectives drawn from civil society. CEPR research may include views on policy, but the Trustees of the Centre do not give prior review to its publications. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and not those of CEPR.

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Does Economic Globalization Influence the US Policy Mood?: A Study of US Public Sentiment, 1956–2011

Cited by 27 publications

References 72 publications

Old wine in new bottles? Reassessing the effects of globalisation on political preferences in Western Europe

Old wine in new bottles? Reassessing the effects of globalisation on political preferences in Western Europe

Does Global Market Integration Weaken Opinion‐Policy Congruence in the American States?

Women Shaping Global Economic Governance

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