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The making of four ideologies of globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2018

Pieter de Wilde
Pieter de Wilde*
Affiliation:
Institute for Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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*Correspondence author. Email: pieter.dewilde@ntnu.no
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Abstract

Recent societal conflicts over immigration, free trade and EU membership testify to the controversiality of globalization in Western societies. Brexit, Trump, the refugee crisis, and the debate around transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) are clear illustrations of the salience of globalization in politics. Many argue that neoliberal ideology supports and drives globalization. This raises the question whether opposition to globalization is also ideological, and how. This contribution investigates the existence of ideologies of globalization. It does so presenting a novel rigorous version of Freeden’s analytical morphological approach to ideologies, with deductive conceptualization drawing on political philosophy combined with inductive correlational analysis at the level of individual arguments. It presents original representative claims analysis data on debates over climate change, human rights, migration, trade, and regional integration in the United States, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Turkey, the European Parliament, and the United Nations General Assembly between 2004 and 2011. It shows that we are witnessing the making of four ideologies of globalization: liberalism, cosmopolitanism, communitarianism, and statism. Each has its own distinctive grouping of concepts. Their emergence may solidify a globalization cleavage in Western societies, shape democratic politics for years to come, and affect the course of globalization itself.

Keywords

claim analysiscommunitarianismcosmopolitanismideologyglobalizationpublic sphere
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Research Article
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European Political Science Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 1 - 18
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© European Consortium for Political Research 2018 

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