The Politics of Trade Adjustment Versus Trade Protection

Kim, Sung Eun; Pelc, Krzysztof J.

doi:10.1177/0010414020957687

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“…This is the case of blood donation, the behavior we examine in this article. In a companion article, we find consistent evidence for analogous behavior with regards to vaccination, another type of prosocial behavior (Kim and Pelc 2024a). Individuals rely on a range of heuristics to form an impression of their neighbors.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?

Kim,

Pelc

2024

Perspect. polit.

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Does political diversity affect the prevalence of selfless behavior across a society? According to a recurrent finding from the study of social capital, ethnic diversity reduces prosocial behavior. We ask whether the same applies to partisan identity, by turning to a frequently used proxy for social capital: blood donations. The question is especially timely: the United States is currently experiencing its worst blood shortage in over a decade. Using survey results covering over 275,000 individuals in the US from 2010 to 2020, and a preregistered survey of an additional 3,500 respondents, we show that not all measures of social diversity have analogous effects on prosocial behavior. We find mixed evidence for a region’s share of immigrants being linked to lower blood donation by US citizens, and no negative effect for racial diversity. By contrast, political diversity appears to be highly significant. Specifically, individuals are less likely to donate blood when their partisan position is farther from the mean political identity in their state or commuting zone, and when they perceive themselves to be political outliers in their community. Affective polarization is known to be a tax on social interaction with out-partisans; as we show, depending on an area’s partisan makeup, it can also be a tax on prosocial behavior writ large.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?

Kim,

Pelc

2024

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“…Milner (2018) shows that welfare compensation no longer seems to condition the effects of globalization. In this volume, however, Kim and Pelc (2021) show that trade adjustment assistance in the US can help create support for traditional parties and especially parties of the left. The questions now are whether compensation at a level necessary to support the losers from globalization is possible, and whether it still appeals to voters.…”

Section: Social Welfare and Political Change In A Globalized Worldmentioning

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Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

Milner

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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What are the political consequences of economic globalization? Since the 1990s, scholars of European party politics have noted the rise of extremist parties, especially right-wing populist ones, and the decline of mainstream left and right parties. This paper focuses on the association between globalization in terms of trade, capital and labor flows, technological change, and popular support for extreme right parties. I examine these relations at the regional and individual level in 15 advanced industrial democracies in Western Europe from 1990 to 2018. Globalization, especially in the form of trade, is associated with growing vote shares for extreme right parties. Technological change in the form of automation increases support for extreme right parties. The financial crisis enhanced support for populist right parties and strengthened the negative relationship between trade shocks and declining support for mainstream left parties. And the use of social welfare compensation seems unable to dampen these political trends.1

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“…As we demonstrate, economic change can shape peoples’ values and value change may be an important mechanism linking economic change with opposition to economic integration (Carreras et al, 2019; Gidron & Hall, 2017; Hays et al, 2019). This insight may also have important policy implications for the design of compensation policies (Kim & Pelc, 2021; Milner, 2021). The economic origins of value change suggest a potential constructive role for policies that compensate those harmed by globalization.…”

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The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom

Ballard-Rosa

Malik

Scheve

2021

Comparative Political Studies

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What explains the backlash against the liberal international order? Are its causes economic or cultural? We argue that while cultural values are central to understanding the backlash, those values are, in part, endogenous and shaped by long-run economic change. Using an original survey of the British population, we show that individuals living in regions where the local labor market was more substantially affected by imports from China have significantly more authoritarian values and that this relationship is driven by the effect of economic change on authoritarian aggression. This result is consistent with a frustration-aggression mechanism by which large economic shocks hinder individuals’ expected attainment of their goals. This study provides a theoretical mechanism that helps to account for the opinions and behaviors of Leave voters in the 2016 UK referendum who in seeking the authoritarian values of order and conformity desired to reduce immigration and “take back control” of policymaking.

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The Politics of Trade Adjustment Versus Trade Protection

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?

Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence From Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom

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