It has been argued that uncompensated exposure to economic globalization is a main driver of the recent rise in political populism, but empirical evidence is mixed. We empirically reevaluate the issue, where exposure to globalization is defined as deviations from Ruggie’s (1982) embedded...

The paper investigates empirically the interaction between economic growth performance and political institutions in producing free-market reform. In particular, we explore whether political regime types shape systematically government policy responses to good or bad growth performance,...