Globalization, Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Support for Global Governance: An Individual Level of Analysis
COMPOSE Working Paper No. 001
COMPOSE Working Paper No. 001Author: Afrimadona
December 2023
This research aims to investigate the variation in people’s confidence in global governance. Established on the cosmopolitan liberal theory of international relations, this research tests the argument that confidence in global governance is rooted in the cosmopolitan views of citizens; that is, citizens’ views that the world has universal ethics centered on humanity. Thus, those with higher levels of cosmopolitan views are expected to be more confident in and have more support for global governance. However, these cosmopolitan views do not manifest out of thin air. I argue that the extent to which countries are exposed to globalization shape the cosmopolitan views of their citizens. Thus, cosmopolitan views intermediate the relationship between exposure to globalization and confidence in global governance. I test this hypothesis using World Values Survey wave 7 (2017-2020).