ABSTRACT
This book began by identifying and describing the main features of globalisation. It then examined the evidence of people’s exposure to and awareness of globalisation and provided an elementary comparative analysis of aspects of the national political cultures that are part of the context into which the forces of globalisation obtrude. It is now time to bring these strands together in order to examine what it is that determines mass attitudes to globalisation. This chapter focuses on three particular aspects of such attitudes: policy preferences, policy attribution and confidence in institutions. Before analysing the correlates of these attitudes, however, we must first describe their distribution across our two regions and eighteen countries.
