Partisan Politics in a Globalised Economy

Abstract

The inter-connectedness of modern-day capitalist economies has become very evident with the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Yet, economic globalization is a phenomenon that arguably has played an important role previously as well (Cameron 1978; Rodrik 1997; Busemeyer 2009). Often, however, globalization is viewed as an inevitable process leading to either expansion or retrenchment disregarding the preferences of the political parties represented in Parliament (for an exception, see Garrett 1998). In this panel we want to study the role of political parties and how they shape the response to increasing levels of globalization. Possible research questions include (but are in no way limited to): do right-wing governments use globalization as a pretext for retrenchment? Are all social programs equally exposed to globalization, or do some parties give preference to some programs? What are the mechanism that links globalization to partisan responses? Papers using both quantitative and qualitative methods are welcome as long as they explicitly concern themselves with the topic of the panel.

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