Globalization and Mass Politics Retaining the Room to Maneuver [Paperback]

Analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies. Although many studies interrogate whether internationalization matters in regard to policy outcomes and how globalization relates to mass protest, few examine globalization and mass politics more generally. This book argues that by reducing the room in which to maneuver in policy making, globalization reduces the importance of economic-based issues while increasing the electoral importance of noneconomic issues. The argument is tested on original and existing data sources.1. Globalization and democracy in advanced industrial societies; 2. Theoretical framework: political demand and supply in globalized economies; 3. The world economy and the composition of policy demands; 4. Globalization and the attribution of responsibility; 5. Globalization and the shifting bases of retrospective voting; 6. Position issues and voter choice in open economies; 7. Representational linkages and the room to maneuver; 8. Credible responses: globalization, parties, and the supply side; 9. Conclusion. Timothy Hellwig draws several new and fascinating implications from his pioneering argument that globalization reduces the propensity of an electolÓÕ