International organizations in a new era of populist nationalism

Copelovitch, Mark; Pevehouse, Jon C.

doi:10.1007/s11558-019-09353-1

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“…Recent electoral contests in Western Europe, Latin America, and the US showcase the "political limits of globalization" (Acemoglu and Yared 2010;Rodrik 2012) and the fragility of the modern liberal world order. Arguably, the key factor that has introduced "noise" and unexplained volatility into the post-war paradigm of output legitimacy and "embedded liberalism" (Ruggie 1982) has been the corrosive effect of globalization on democratic politics in the form of heightened sovereignty costs (Copelovitch and Pevehouse 2019).…”

Section: The Input and Output Legitimacy Of Party Systemsmentioning

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“…"Brexit" in the UK, Trump's victory in the US, and the contemporaneous rise of right-wing nativist populism in the European "North" and left-wing redistributionist populism in the European "South" can all be viewed through the same prism of a populist backlash against the "straitjacket" of economic globalization and political integration (Algan et al 2017;Autor et al 2017;Colantone and Stanig 2018;Guiso et al 2017;Rodrik 2017). Effectively, the common thread that connects all these electoral results is that of increasing party-system polarization and party extremism stemming from the increasing "sovereignty costs" of supranational integration and economic interdependence (Copelovitch and Pevehouse 2019).…”

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“Take back control”? The effects of supranational integration on party-system polarization

2019

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In this paper, we examine the relationship between supranational integration and domestic party-system polarization (extremism). We first construct a theoretical argument that uncovers the key trade-off between the "output legitimacy" of a supranationally integrated party system and the inevitable loss of "input legitimacy" caused by externally imposed policy constraints. This translates into a strategic tradeoff between responsibility and responsiveness at the party level of electoral competition. We hypothesize that while moderate supranational policy constraints can initially speed-up platform convergence, ever-closer political integration may reverse the trend towards higher levels of party-system polarization and party extremism. We apply our framework to the case of EU integration and test our key non-monotonic prediction both at the party-system level of polarization and at the party level of ideological extremism. Finally, we apply to synthetic control method (SCM) for causal inference in comparative case studies to study how political integration and supranational policy constraints have affected their overall level of party-system polarization over time. Our overall empirical analysis strongly corroborates our theoretical argument.

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Section: The Input and Output Legitimacy Of Party Systemsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“Take back control”? The effects of supranational integration on party-system polarization

2019

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“…A rapidly growing literature investigates the causes and consequences of backlash against international institutions, including international courts (Alter, Gathii and Helfer, 2016;Madsen, Cebulak and Wiebusch, 2018;Sandholtz, Bei and Caldwell, 2018;Hobolt, 2016;Walter, 2018;Abebe and Ginsburg, 2019;Copelovitch and Pevehouse, 2019). Backlash refers to government actions aiming to curb the authority of an international institution.…”

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“…Liberal international institutions are increasingly challenged by consolidated democracies for being overly interventionist. While a growing literature considers the causes of backlash (Alter, Gathii and Helfer, 2016;Madsen, Cebulak and Wiebusch, 2018;Sandholtz, Bei and Caldwell, 2018;Hobolt, 2016;Walter, 2018;Abebe and Ginsburg, 2019;Copelovitch and Pevehouse, 2019;Naoi, 2020), we know less about how backlash affects institutional behavior. Do liberal institutions accommodate democratic critics by intervening less in the domestic affairs of democracies?…”

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Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

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Voeten

2020

International Studies Quarterly

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How does backlash from consolidated democracies affect the behavior of liberal international institutions? We argue that liberal international institutions have incentives to appease their democratic critics. Liberal institutions rely on democratic support for their continued effectiveness and can accommodate democratic critics at a lower legitimacy cost than non-democratic challengers. We examine this theory in the context of the European Court of Human Rights using a new dataset of rulings until 2019 and a coding of government positions during multiple reform conferences. Combining matching and a difference-in-differences design, we find strong evidence that the Court exercises restraint towards consolidated democracies that have criticized the Court in multilateral reform conferences by rendering fewer violation judgments against these states. We find some evidence that governments have also recently appointed more deferential judges. The findings suggest that backlash can affect liberal international institutions even without membership exit.

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“…The impact of globalization on the institutional structure occurs not only through formal and informal institutions, but also through other mechanisms. A particularly important role here is played by the impact through the new emerging in the context of globalization, previously did not take place at all numerous supranational institutions, interacting both among themselves and with the institutions of individual nation-States [19][20][21]. They are classified on various grounds, for example, a) by purpose: political; economic; financial (EU -EU, G7 -G7, CSTO, African Union; WTO, OPEC, NAFTA, APEC; IMF, world Bank -WB, IBRD, and many others.…”

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Directions and mechanisms of globalization impact on institutional structure of society

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Magdeeva

2020

SHS Web Conf.

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The article studies the problematic issues of essence and content of globalization process, directions and mechanisms of its impact on institutional structure of society. At the same time, globalization is viewed as a complex complicated and contradictory process not only increasing the dependence between socioeconomic and economic systems of individual countries, but also as a factor directly changing the course of development vector of institutional structures that sets a new trajectory of their movement. It is important to analyze the impact of globalization on the institutional structure through various by nature institutions – formal ones, which at each stage of development are artificially created, as a rule, by the state, and informal ones (traditions, social conventions, customs, etc.), the mechanism of globalization impact on which directly links with its impact on the property of fractality or self-similarity of socio-economic systems. Some contradictions that arise in the process of the mentioned interaction are considered and analyzed. The aim of the study is to identify the mechanisms of globalization influence on institutional structure of society and the limits of its positive impact on development of this society. Methods of the study: abstract-logical; theory of nonlinear dynamics; historical and economic analysis.

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International organizations in a new era of populist nationalism

Cited by 106 publications

References 23 publications

“Take back control”? The effects of supranational integration on party-system polarization

“Take back control”? The effects of supranational integration on party-system polarization

Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights

Directions and mechanisms of globalization impact on institutional structure of society

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