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Hugh Ward, Lawrence Ezrow, Han Dorussen 
01 Jul 2011-World Politics
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The authors find that the effects of globalization are significant for social democratic parties only in circumstances in which the median is relatively far to the left.
For as far as scholars of the humanities, or more specifically, comparatists are concerned, globalization is not necessarily a good thing.
The evidence presented in Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics suggests that globalization is creating sharper, more urgent problems for states and international institutions to deal with.
They seem limited to arguing that globalization need not necessarily mean a race toward the lowest common denominator and that social welfare policies are "good for business."
America and its democratic allies should strongly promote and carefully manage globalization, for it has significant beneficial implications for humanity.
Only in the most optimistic scenarios of trade theory or political discourse does globalization lead to gains for American workers.
This article argues that the two phenomena are integrally related within the same process of neoliberal globalization.
Through a diagnosis of five reoccurring ambiguities within the globalization literature, I argue that the concept of globalization lacks an empirical referent.