Does globalisation affect the quality of democracy? A proposal for more nuanced responses

• Autor(a) principal: Jerabek, Marketa Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-30092020-095840/
• topic: Dados de seção transversal de séries temporais; Globalisation; Globalização; Multi-dimensionality; Multidimensionalidade; Qualidade da democracia; Quality of democracy; Time series cross-section data

How does globalisation affect the quality of democracy? The debate about globalisation and democracy is mostly dominated by pro-globalists and anti-globalists. In this thesis, I innovate by reasoning that the globalisation-democracy nexus is best understood when adopting a multi-dimensional perspective of both globalisation and the quality of democracy. Empirical research that scrutinises the relationship between globalisation and the quality of democracy limits itself, when too aggregated measures of both concepts are applied, or assume that all dimensions of globalisation and the quality of democracy go hand in hand. Therefore, I plead for more nuanced arguments and scrutinise the assumption that economic, social and political globalisation are associated with democratic freedom, equality, and control. To unravel the relationship, I apply extreme bounds analysis (EBA) and two step system generalized method of moments (GMM) using panel data covering 57 democracies from 1970-1991 and 115 young and old democracies from 1991-2017. Furthermore, I look at the Cold War and post-Cold War periods separately, given the different international system\'s power structures during both periods. The main findings of this thesis allow for the conclusion that: i) the binary positions of pro-globalists and anti-globalists are rather misleading, once we assume the multidimensionality of globalisation and the quality of democracy. The literature gains a lot by looking at different dimensions of globalisation and the quality of democracy separately ii) the distinction between the Cold War and post-Cold War periods makes sense in various estimations, and iii) while young and old democracies have in some aspects differing effects of globalisation on the quality of democracy, both categories seem to face common challenges or benefit equally with regard to other aspects.