Globalization and Mass Politics

Timothy Hellwig is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for European Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Politics. He has previously served as a researcher at the International Foundation for Election Systems, with the faculty at the University of Houston, and as a visiting researcher at the University of Essex and at Gothenburg University.

'Timothy Hellwig draws several new and fascinating implications from his pioneering argument that globalization reduces the propensity of an electorate to reward and punish incumbent politicians for the state of the domestic economy. Here, we have a convincing explanation for the reorientation of domestic political competition around noneconomic issues in Western democracies: globalization crowds out contestation over economic policy. This is the rare work that will attract interest from both voting behavior scholars and political economists.' Andy Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder

• 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.