When Trade Hits Home
Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Hee (0009-0009-5078-9381, University of Salzburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2025.2485209 |
| OpenAlex | W4409473676 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 50 |
The liberalisation of international trade has produced winners and losers that cluster regionally. Yet, the political consequences of these geographical differences are not fully understood. This article presents the concept of place, introducing an integrative framework to explain how the distributional effects of trade translate into populist voting patterns, bridging economic and sociocultural explanations. When confronted with the opaque distributional effects of trade, citizens rely on their social environment for information, aligning their political behaviour accordingly. This study advances existing literature empirically by directly measuring subnational trade competitiveness and analysing its interaction with the local sociocultural context. The fine-grained analysis of the 2022 French presidential election results reflects the places of social identity building. The results reveal a negative relationship between competitiveness and populist voting, primarily driven by right-wing populism. In contrast, places with higher shares of migrants and lower competitiveness experience a relatively more left-wing populist response
Economics · International trade · Political science · Politics · Voting · Computer Science · Global trade and economics · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Revolt on the Right
Populism and the economics of globalization
What determines individual trade-policy preferences?
Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism
Demand and Supply of Populism
Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote
The China Syndrome
Cultural Backlash
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
The Effect Of Immigration On Productivity
Trade Shocks and Far-Right Voting
Competitive Threat, Intergroup Contact, or Both? Immigration and the Dynamics of Front National Voting in France
The China Shock
The 2016 Referendum, Brexit and the Left Behind
Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
The Radical Right in Western Europe
Structural Data on Immigration or Immigration Perceptions? What Accounts for the Electoral Success of the Radical Right in Europe
The populist citizen
Mapping the European far right in the 21st century
Voting for Populism in Europe
Far Right Parties in Europe
The Trade Origins of Economic Nationalism
Cultural Backlash? How (Not) to Explain the Rise of Authoritarian Populism
Rising electoral fragmentation and abstention
Regional Peripheralization as Contextual Source of Populist Attitudes in Germany and Czech Republic
The globalisation divide in the public mind
Populism in Place
Rising Inequality As a Threat to the Liberal International Order
Support for Free Trade
Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany
Contextual Effects of Immigrant Presence on Populist Radical Right Support
Economic Determinants of Electoral Outcomes
The Backlash Against Globalization
Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy
Levels or changes
Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness
Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale
A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy
Global Competition and Brexit
Gone For Good
Social identity and intergroup behaviour
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |