Globalization, Positional and Valence Politics, and the Global Financial Crisis

• Recent research suggests that globalization could be a factor that undermines economic voting and the salience of the left–right economic dimension for individual voting decisions. But the claim that the effects of ideology are reduced by globalization remains contestable. If ideology is in decline, this suggests that voters will compensate by weighting more their attitudes on non‐economic ideological dimensions or their partisanship. Extending this logic, if voting on the economy and the left–right dimension is reduced, broader ‘valence’ issues should come to the fore: evaluations of government performance and competence primarily expressed around leadership preferences. We explore our hypotheses with data from Module 3 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, from elections conducted both before and after the global financial crisis.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

globalization

left‐right

valence issues

leadership

economic voting

economic voting

economic voting

government competence

global financial crisis

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