Domestic Institutions, Exogenous Shocks, and the Politics of Redistribution

Polarizing politics often reflect redistributive concerns. While second image-reversed approaches in international politics have already suggested that domestic politics is shaped by exogenous shocks, the literature has yet to detail the role of both state and non-state institutions in absorbing foreign trends and responding to them in the form of policymaking or societal demands that may later be converted into policies. The panel covers cases that illustrate how issues associated to polarization, such as corruption and inequality, are shaped through intermestic processes and usually culminate in unintended consequences for both domestic and global political economy.