Does globalization produce populist parties?

Using cross-national statistical data, the chapter theoretically examines and empirically evaluates Dani Rodrik’s thesis that advanced states of globalization are prone to populist backlash. More specifically, it explains emergence of right-wing populist political parties through the lens of the growing presence of Asian and other low wage exporting countries in world trade and the failure of mainstream Western political parties to adjust to the blowback of neo-liberal trade policies.