Economic Globalization and Mass Politics in Advanced Industrial Democracies

先进工业民主国家的经济全球化和大众政治

• 批准号: 0819570
• 负责人: Timothy Hellwig
• 金额: $ 25.46万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Economic; Globalization; Mass; Politics; Advanced

The present era is defined by globalization. However, beyond recognizing that citizens are aware that the world economy affects their lives, academics, policymakers, and the public in general knows very little about the effect of exposure to world markets for electoral democracy. Contemporary analyses of advanced industrial countries generally conclude that democracy functions no worse-and possibly better-in today's worldwide economy than in previous times. The evidence supporting such conclusions, however, remains indirect, extrapolated from analyses of highly aggregated political and economic data. Parting from these analyses, this study will be the first to examine the implications of market integration for electoral politics. Where earlier studies consider whether and how globalization matters for public policy, redistribution, and economic performance, this study investigates whether and how globalization matters for representative democracy. In doing so, this research will redirect the study of the politics of globalization, away from the relationship between market exposure and policy outcomes and toward a consideration of how citizens perceive of the world economy.Informed by advances in the study of public opinion, this project poses several questions: What do citizens know about globalization? How does it affect their policy preferences, policy attributions, and vote decisions? Do perceptions of the world economy vary according to particular groups or classes, and if so, what are the implications for political competition? How do political parties craft positions on the world economy? Do politicians have coherent positions or are they characterized by high levels of intra-party division? Ultimately, how does globalization affect policy representation by political elites? To address these questions, nationally-representative public opinion surveys will be conducted in ten democracies having a range of political institutional and experiences with the world economy. These are Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States. Data will also be collected on the opinions of political elites in these same ten democracies through the use of expert surveys. The combination of data on mass and elite attitudes will give the scholarly community the tools to investigate whether beliefs about the effects of the world economy are based on personal experience or whether public attitudes are shaped by cues from political leaders. Data will be analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques, including simulation of "fully-informed" preferences, models of multinomial choice, instrumental variables regression, and multilevel modeling. While "globalization" is often mentioned in public discourse as a defining feature of the 21st century, we know little beyond anecdotal accounts about how the world economy influences voter perceptions of democracy and popular sovereignty. Findings from this study promise to close the gap between hyperbole and what we actually know about globalization and mass politics. Results will help determine whether market integration is conducive to democracy, as much of the current research implies, or whether the growth of the economy beyond national borders is harmful to healthy mass politics.

当今时代是全球化的时代。然而，除了认识到公民意识到世界经济影响他们的生活之外，学术界、决策者和一般公众对接触世界市场对选举民主的影响知之甚少。对先进工业国家的当代分析普遍得出结论，民主在当今世界经济中的作用并不比以前更差，甚至可能更好。然而，支持这些结论的证据仍然是间接的，是从高度综合的政治和经济数据分析中推断出来的。除了这些分析之外，本研究将首次探讨市场整合对选举政治的影响。早期的研究考虑全球化是否以及如何影响公共政策，再分配和经济绩效，本研究调查全球化是否以及如何影响代议制民主。在这样做的过程中，本研究将重新引导全球化的政治学研究，远离市场曝光和政策结果之间的关系，并考虑公民如何看待世界经济。通过民意研究的进展，本项目提出了几个问题：公民对全球化了解多少？它如何影响他们的政策偏好，政策属性和投票决定？对世界经济的看法是否因特定群体或阶级而异？如果是，对政治竞争的影响是什么？政党如何在世界经济中占据一席之地？政治家们的立场是否一致，或者他们的特点是党内分歧很大？最后，全球化如何影响政治精英的政策代表？为了解决这些问题，将在十个具有广泛政治体制和世界经济经验的民主国家进行具有全国代表性的民意调查。这些国家是澳大利亚、加拿大、丹麦、法国、德国、英国、荷兰、新西兰、瑞典和美国。还将通过专家调查收集这十个民主国家政治精英的意见数据。关于大众和精英态度的数据的结合将为学术界提供工具，以调查关于世界经济影响的信念是否基于个人经验，或者公众态度是否受到政治领导人的暗示的影响。将使用各种统计技术分析数据，包括模拟“完全知情”的偏好，多项选择模型，工具变量回归和多层次建模。虽然“全球化”经常在公共讨论中被提及，作为21世纪世纪的一个决定性特征，但我们对世界经济如何影响选民对民主和人民主权的看法知之甚少。这项研究的结果有望缩小夸张与我们实际了解的全球化和大众政治之间的差距。研究结果将有助于确定市场一体化是否如目前大多数研究所暗示的那样有利于民主，或者超越国界的经济增长是否有害于健康的大众政治。