American Politics and Globalization of Economic Systems Globalization of economic systems and politics are contested issues.

Explore how these processes influenced the strategy and the victory of Donald Trump, with emphasis on the electorate. Anecdotal and descriptive evidence has led to the claim that globalization plays a major role in inducing overweight and obesity in developing countries, but robust quantitative evidence is scarce. After controlling for relevant individual and country level factors, globalization as a whole is substantially and significantly associated with an increase in the individual propensity to be overweight among women.