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Globalization and extra-parliamentary politics in an era of democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2011

Moises Arce  and
Wonik Kim
Moises Arce*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Wonik Kim*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
*
* E-mails: arcem@missouri.edu, wkim@lsu.edu
* E-mails: arcem@missouri.edu, wkim@lsu.edu
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Abstract

Two currents can be distinguished in the literature regarding the domestic consequences of globalization. One perspective holds that globalization depoliticizes extra-parliamentary protest activity despite the presence of democracy. Another perspective suggests that globalization has contributed to the repoliticization of protest, especially when democracy is present. Using cross-sectional time-series data in a global sample for the 1970–2006 period, the paper examines the effect of globalization on extra-parliamentary protest activity in the context of democracy. The paper further tests these relationships cross-regionally comparing East Asia with Latin America – arguably the two regions in the world where dual transitions to economic and political liberalization have been in full force since 1970s. The results reveal distinct patterns of protest activity cross-regionally, whereby East Asia approximates the depoliticization trend from the global sample. In contrast, the results for Latin America provide confirming evidence for the repoliticization perspective. These findings remain robust across a number of control variables, and different measures of democracy and estimation techniques. Overall, the paper shows that democracy influences the relationship between globalization and extra-parliamentary protest activity – a relationship that up to now has remained systematically untested.

Keywords

globalizationdemocracyextra-parliamentary politics
Type
Research Article
Information
European Political Science Review , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 2011 , pp. 253 - 278
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Copyright © European Consortium for Political Research 2011

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