POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

The International economic system is said to exert a powerful influence in determining countries’ domestic political structures and institutions. As a result, compare and contrast Rogowski’s arguments in “Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to International Trade” with Bartilow’s work in “Economic Globalization, Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Consolidation of
Democracy”. What are the essential empirical limitations that are highlighted in “Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to International Trade” and why would these limitations undermine the empirical validity of Rogowski’s theoretical arguments, and how would you methodologically fix these limitations. And discuss how Bartilow addresses similar empirical limitations
in the methodological and theoretical design of “Economic Globalization, Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Consolidation of Democracy”. For full credit provide a full and complete answers to all sections of your answer.
1. Explain Rogowski’s research
2. Explain Bartilows research
3. Compare and contrasted them
4. Cover the empirical limitations and how bartilow got around them.
Basically the empirical limitations are that Rogowskis argument is effectively untestable because of the ungodly amount of work it would take to actually build the dataset of historical domestic political coalitions for enough countries over a long enough period of time. Bartilows(who is my professor btw) is supposedly superior because his work is actually testable and was statistically significant and all that. Rogowskis empirical validity is undermined because no one has ever been able to provide any statistical evidence. You may also want to talk about endogeneity bias and how trade and the level of democracy are crazy endogenous. I have attached my classmates Master notes on here and if you scroll down to 11/7/14 you will find some of the information needed because Bartilow’s work is not online.
NOTE: Don’t copy this/paraphrase this too closely because this is a part of classmates essay, but this is his short explanation of the difference between Bartilow and Rogowski/the empirical limitations of Rogowski. (Note: RR = Rogowski)

” Bartilow’s (HB) work in understanding resultant political cleavages from increasing levels of trade is similar in that it attempts to understand the political effects of the exogenous shocks in the international trading system. But it is also fundamentally distinct since it attempts to theoretically specify the causal mechanism through which economic globalization exerts an effect on democracy. RR doesn’t do this, and engages in abstractions when speaking to the political effects of increased globalization and economic integration in international markets. To resolve these limitations, HB extends upon RR’s work by offering a theoretical perspective that draws upon microeconomic theories of the firm combined with previous democracy theories to explain the conditions that are least and most favorable for the development of democracy when economic globalization and higher exposure to trade interacts with ethnic heterogeneity.” Thank you!! This is a big chunk of my final grade, good luck.