Harm, fairness and trade policy preferences: An experimental examination of sincere fair-trade preferences

Hearn, Eddie

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“…Much of this research attempts to understand when individuals rely on collective vs individual assessments. Gomez and Wilson (2001), for example, argue that only sophisticated voters can make the complex connection 5 Additional strands of research have suggested factors beyond self-interest that influence trade attitudes such as values, perceptions about harm and fairness, as well as out-group attitudes (Ehrlich, 2010(Ehrlich, , 2018Hearn, 2014;Lü et al, 2012;Mansfield and Mutz, 2009).…”

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Disentangling the relationship between sociotropic and egotropic trade attitudes: A survey experiment in Japan

Hearn

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Public support for protection is typically attributed to economic self-interest. Beyond pocketbook anxieties, a competing approach, however, contends that sociotropic attitudes dictate foreign policy preferences. Researchers, however, have faced difficulty in disentangling sociotropic attitudes from pocketbook concerns in observational studies. This article addresses this problem by utilizing a priming experiment to examine the relationship between socio and egotropic attitudes. In line with the predictions of the sociotropic framework, individuals are less certain about the egotropic effects of trade and sociotropic attitudes are found to influence egotropic perceptions by reducing uncertainty about the pocketbook effects of trade. In contrast, the study fails to find support for the hypothesis that individuals project egotropic concerns onto societal evaluations. The results of the study suggest that future research should pay careful consideration to the relationship between socio and egotropic attitudes when modeling and analyzing trade-policy preferences.

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“… 5 Additional strands of research have suggested factors beyond self-interest that influence trade attitudes such as values, perceptions about harm and fairness, as well as out-group attitudes (Ehrlich, 2010, 2018; Hearn, 2014; Lü et al, 2012; Mansfield and Mutz, 2009). …”

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2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…In the 1990s and early 2000s, many political scientists and economists dismissed labor and environmental groups as protectionists. Since then, studies have carved-out labor and environmental concerns as “fair trade” and not protectionism (Ehrlich 2010, 2018; Hearn 2014). Political scientist Ehrlich (2010) outlined four ideal types of trade policy preferences—(1) “free traders” oppose all limits to trade, (2) “fair traders” only support trade limits tied to labor and environmental standards, (3) “economic protectionists” seek safeguards for domestic industries and jobs but not fair trade, and (4) “general protectionists” support protections for both the domestic economy and fair trade abroad.…”

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Social and Political Drivers of the Reorientation of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of U.S. Withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Liss

2019

Social Currents

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Previous sociological studies demonstrated that U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) had durable political power to motivate U.S. trade policy. However, why did the United States switch from a “free trade” to an “America First” trade agenda? Economists and political scientists argue that protectionist voters elected the protectionist candidate—Trump. An alternative sociological explanation is that U.S. MNCs lost political power to competing stakeholder groups. The article uses qualitative and quantitative methods to test these competing theories using the case study of the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The article argues that both theories are necessary, and neither are sufficient. The United States withdrew from the TPP because increasing negative effects of trade and investment in the United States reshaped trade politics, especially on the republican side; however, power relations between stakeholder groups had to shift as well. U.S. MNCs lost political influence over trade policy to new domestic manufacturing organizations and their networks with labor and fair trade coalitions.

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“…Under what conditions do environmental considerations shape individuals' trade attitudes and preferences? Previous studies on individual trade policy preferences show that when it comes to the redistribution of economic benefits from trade within their respective countries, people tend to prefer an equal division of such benefits (inequality aversion) (Hearn 2014;Lu et al 2012;Nguyen 2017). Borrowing from the social psychology and behavioral economics literature on so-called other-regarding or social preferences (Fehr and Schmidt 1999), some scholars argue that individual trade preferences are driven by considerations of others as well (Baron and Kemp 2004;Hearn 2014;Lu et al 2012).…”

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Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries

Nguyễn

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2021

Global Environmental Politics

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Do environmental implications of international trade influence public support for economic globalization? And under what conditions do environmental considerations shape individuals’ trade attitudes and policy preferences? In this study, we examine the microfoundations of the trade–environment nexus based on survey-embedded experiments in six OECD countries. Our empirical findings demonstrate that environmental implications have a substantial causal effect on public opinion about international trade. Furthermore, our results indicate that citizens are similarly sensitive to both domestic and international environmental implications of trade. These findings suggest that there is probably sufficient public support for green economy policies that take into account the global rather than only national environmental impacts from trade when designing trade policies.

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Harm, fairness and trade policy preferences: An experimental examination of sincere fair-trade preferences

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Disentangling the relationship between sociotropic and egotropic trade attitudes: A survey experiment in Japan

Disentangling the relationship between sociotropic and egotropic trade attitudes: A survey experiment in Japan

Social and Political Drivers of the Reorientation of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of U.S. Withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries

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