Global Markets and Local Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19213612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timm Betz (0000-0001-5632-2832, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), Paul Binder (0000-0003-0731-4814, LMU Klinikum), Jonas Geus (0009-0002-9561-5595, LMU Klinikum) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123426101471 |
| OpenAlex | W7155090173 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 79 |
How do global market pressures affect domestic politics? A well-established literature documents that import competition fuels the rise of populist leaders and right-wing parties. We shift attention to a thus far unexplored consequence: the place-based nature of globalization pressures moves voters towards candidates with local ties. These effects are most pronounced where import pressures raise the salience of pre-existing local identities, and where import pressures hit key industries in local economic clusters, creating spillovers throughout the community. We offer evidence from elections to the US House of Representatives from 2002 to 2016, focusing on candidates’ place of birth as expression of local ties. Our results provide a novel perspective on how economic globalization affects politics: local ties are a key dimension of descriptive representation, translating the place-based economic consequences of globalization into politics. Moreover, we highlight how indirect exposure to global markets through spillovers shapes the political response to globalization
Competition (biology) · Dimension (graph theory) · Globalization · Perspective (graphical) · Politics · Representation (politics) · Salience (neuroscience) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Bias reduction of maximum likelihood estimates
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Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Welfare
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of US Manufacturing Employment
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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism
Correlated random effects models with unbalanced panels
Cluster-robust inference
Supply Chain Disruptions
Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
On the Pooling of Time Series and Cross Section Data
A Practitioner’s Guide to Cluster-Robust Inference
The China Syndrome
Local and National Belonging in A Globalised World
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
The Politics of Resentment
Robust Inference With Multiway Clustering
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Us Over Here Versus Them Over There…Literally
The Rise of Local Politics
Open economy politics and Brexit
Why does import competition favor republicans? Localized trade shocks and cultural backlash in the US
The politics of industrial decline
Reassessing and Revising Commuting Zones for 2010
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Globalization and the skilled city
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Geography of Grievance
Supplying Influence
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
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The Trade Origins of Economic Nationalism
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The Cultural Origins of Populism
Women and the Wall
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How Politics Shapes State Identities in the US
Staying in Place
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Probing the Effect of Candidate Localness in Low-Information Elections
Fixed effects in rare events data
Explaining Fixed Effects
Local Candidates, Place-Based Identities, and Electoral Success
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Effect of Local Ties On Electoral Success and Parliamentary Behaviour
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes
Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States
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Populism in Place
Winners and Losers in International Trade
Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations
The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values
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The Backlash Against Globalization
Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy
The Populist Backlash Against Globalization
Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation
Place, candidate roots, and voter preferences in an age of partisan polarization
Incentives to cultivate a personal vote
Local means local, does it? Regional identification and preferences for local candidates
Internal Migration in the United States
Women's Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination
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Gone For Good
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |