PART VIII: CHALLENGES TO REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS: Globalization, Electoral Change, and Representation

Both the political consequences of market integration and the workings of representation in liberal democracies have received a good deal of attention. But if the contours of debates within these two research traditions are well defined, the linkages between them are not. This chapter takes a step towards establishing these connections. Organized about the chain of representation, this chapter makes three claims. First, that globalization is associated with changing social cleavages, and these changes are mainly in the realm of non-material, or cultural values. Second, that globalization matters for how voters decide by decoupling policy responsibility from elected representatives. And third, that globalization and economic crisis have reduced party and government responsiveness to public opinion.