No seminário GI SPARC de 18 de maio será discutido o paper de Lea Heyne e Rubén Ruiz-Rufino, intitulado "Globalisation, Government Autonomy and Support for Democracy".

O evento terá lugar na sala 2 do ICS-ULisboa e online, aqui (ID : 914 6530 2446; Password: 209982).

Resumo do paper:
Trading national policy autonomy for expected economic benefits, most countries inWestern Europe have become economically interdependent, but the political consequences of these decisions are still unclear. This paper examines how reduced levels of government policy autonomy affect attitudes towards democracy. We first argue that citizens only become aware of their governments’ limited level of policy autonomy when highly economically integrated countries are asymmetrically hit by severe economic shocks. It is then when such realisation is manifested in levels of satisfaction with democracy. Using the exposure of Western democracies to economic shocks and diverging levels of economic interdependence between 1957 and 2020, we first examine at the macro level how the combination of adverse economic shocks and different levels of globalisation account for government autonomy and how such relationship affects perceptions about democracy. At the micro-level, we then use survey data from the two rotating modules on democracy included in the European Social Survey 2012 and 2021 to disentangle the mechanisms underlying this empirical regularity.