Electoral Systems, Regional Resentment and the Surprising Success of Anglo-American Populism
本文结合城市/区域发展理论与比较政治学，研究全球化加剧的区域不平等与多数选举制的互动如何导致国家应对不足，从而助长民粹主义，解释为何民粹主义仅在英美取得彻底成功。
As populist movements, partly fuelled by voters in excluded regions, drive national electoral backlashes to globalisation, why have their only outright successes come in the USA and UK? Synthesising urban/regional development theory with comparative politics, this article examines a previously unconsidered contributing factor: the interaction of globalisation’s rising inter-regional disparities with majoritarian electoral systems. Majoritarianism’s distinct internal dynamics and imperfect representation mechanisms yield insufficient state responses to rising inter-regional inequality, stoking populist discontent. Global integration may thus be less stable today under majoritarian than proportional electoral rules. This has implications for urban/regional development scholarship, globalisation’s durability and electoral reform.