20.500.12556/RUL-176705 Neoliberalism and globalization are not undermining democracy panel evidence from more than 140 countries, 1980–2022 The rise of neoliberal reforms in the period of globalization is often claimed to be linked with wider outcomes, such as increased inequality, unemployment, and different cultural grievances. Because of these economic and cultural concerns, voters might seek solutions to their ostensible problems by turning to illiberal populist parties, which tend to undermine democracy and its basic principles. The present article empirically tests if neoliberalism, operationalized with the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World, and globalization, operationalized with the KOF's Globalization Index, were somehow associated with democratic integrity. The analysis is performed through fixed-effects regressions in more than 140 countries between 1980 and 2022. The main results show that over-time increases in both neoliberalism and globalization predicted over-time increases in five different types of democracy scores. Furthermore, the analyses with disaggregated indexes showed that freedom of international trade, modesty of regulation, legal system and property rights, and social globalization are what drive the relationship at the aggregate level. Results also showed that there are no statistically significant relationships between economic freedom and Freedom House's democracy scores specifically in the time period between 2011 and 2022. Furthermore, there are no statistically significant results indicating a relationship between globalization and democracy during the same time period. This is an interesting observation since this time period is commonly understood as most clearly embodying the democratic recession. democratic recession economic freedom globalization neoliberalism populism demokratična recesija ekonomska svoboda globalizacija populizem neoliberalizem true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-12-09 13:59:10 2025-12-09 13:59:15 2025-12-23 04:15:49 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 797–821 iss. 5 Vol. 84 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 316.334 0002-9246 10.1111/ajes.12635 237124867 American_J_Econ_Sociol_-_2025_-_Branilovic_-_Neoliberalism_and_Globalization_Are_Not_Undermining_Democracy__Panel_Evidence.pdf American_J_Econ_Sociol_-_2025_-_Branilovic_-_Neoliberalism_and_Globalization_Are_Not_Undermining_Democracy__Panel_Evidence.pdf 1 6C0C718D87DDF78DE5B7721EB761A9D1 e50412d6aff39586350c4b89c839c85677178923a7ed5d9656b1aef68a10ad51 bd0ffa3d-d4fe-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223220 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12635 0 9eac04f5-d4fe-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=223219 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0