Comparative Politics

Only 13 percent of those job losses can be explained by trade

The rest were casualties of automation or the result of tweaks to factory operations that enabled more production with less labor.

American factories produced more goods last year than ever, by many indications. Yet they did so while employing about 12.3 million workers — roughly the same number as in 2009, when production was roughly three-fourths what it is today.

a symphony of motion greets every arriving container ship. Cranes rev, lifting containers

Robots Running Things in Rotterdam

Corporatism - A system of representing citizen's interests in the government that contrasts sharply with pluralism. A system of interest representation in which the government allows certain groups privileged access to the policy-making decisions in exchange for loyalty.

Confederacion Nacional de Campesinois/National Peasant Confederation (CNC) - One of the main corporatist groups that made up the PRI.

(CTM) Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos - One of the main corporatist groups that made up the PRI.

The PRI party is an inclusive party that is in the center of the Mexico political line. It has no clear ideology and there are many different ideological positions because of the many factions within the PRI. It was the backbone of the Mexican corporatist system. Also, the PRI provided opportunities for the peasants and workers to enter the political system.

The Mexican bureaucracy is also heavily entrenched in corporatism in which few interest groups (commonly funded by the federal government to continue to exist) cooperate with policy makers.

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which was in power from 1927-2000. The PRI is an inclusive party that is in the middle of Mexico's political spectrum. The PRI used corporatism to help perpetuate its rule by providing patronage to groups who were loyal and repressing groups who were not loyal

Witness the recent debate over “sanctuary cities,” or state-federal conflicts over immigration enforcement.

the desire for real national control over immigration policy may be as dangerous to the E.U. project in the long run as the already-evident folly of expanding the common currency to Greece.

“Brexit” from the European Union.

It’s behind the rise of the National Front in France, and Euroskeptical parties the continent over.

Europe’s already-significant north-south divisions

the scale of the migration that may be coming to Europe over the next fifty years.

300 million people in the United States and just under 600 million in all the countries to our south

In 2050, according to the latest U.N. projections, Europe’s population will have dipped to (an aging) 707 million, while Africa’s population will be 2.4 billion

Desperation might drive it, but so might rising expectations, the connections forged by growth and globalization.