Who Settles Disputes? Treaty Design and Trade Attitudes Toward the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Hahm, Hyeonho; König, Thomas; Osnabrügge, Moritz; Frech, Elena

doi:10.1017/s0020818319000249

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“…Furthermore, future studies could explore how arguments related to sovereignty loss or power-sharing influence public opinion in other contexts such as international treaties, trade and investment, or even coalition governments (e.g. Elkins et al., 2006; Fortunato, 2019; Hahm et al., 2019; Harbridge and Malhotra, 2011). We hope our findings will encourage future research on public opinion and support for cooperation at the international and national levels.…”

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Swaying citizen support for EU membership: Evidence from a survey experiment of German voters

Yordanova

Angelova

Lehrer

et al. 2020

European Union Politics

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The United Kingdom’s 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) raised concerns that other countries would follow suit. This article examines how arguments about EU membership related to economic, cultural, political, and security and peace issues could influence how citizens would vote in EU membership referendums. Our two-wave survey experiment on a random sample of the German population and difference-in-differences analysis revealed that only fears of being outvoted in EU decision-making swayed German voters’ attitudes about EU membership, particularly voters with weaker EU support, little EU knowledge and low levels of political engagement. We therefore conclude that concerns about sovereignty loss can be drivers of Euroscepticism even in a country that has vast influence over EU decisions.

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Swaying citizen support for EU membership: Evidence from a survey experiment of German voters

Yordanova

Angelova

Lehrer

et al. 2020

European Union Politics

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“…International institutions can play an important role in shaping domestic public support for international cooperation. We know from existing research on the design of trade agreements that the public prefers trade deals with balanced concessions (Brutger and Rathbun 2021) and that the public also cares about the type of dispute settlement in multilateral trade deals (Hahm et al 2019). In this paper, we turn our attention to two additional features of the design of trade agreements, analyzing how these design features affect public support.…”

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“…The public also expresses higher support for international climate change agreements when such agreements are designed to be consistent with principles of fairness and reciprocity (Bechtel and Scheve 2013). There is also strong evidence that public support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was shaped by attitudes toward the design of the dispute settlement process (Brutger and Strezhnev forthcoming; Hahm et al 2019). European public mobilization against TTIP focused on the specific rules of the agreement, with the public being opposed to private arbitration known as ISDS.…”

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Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade

Brutger

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Domestic debates about trade have increased the salience of international economic cooperation among the public, raising the question of whether, and how, domestic support can be rallied in support of international trade agreements. We argue that institutional features of trade agreements provide important cues to domestic audiences that shape support, particularly the membership composition and voting rules for multilateral deals. We use two survey experiments to show that the US public is more supportive of trade when it is negotiated with like-minded countries. We also find that the voting rules shape support for trade agreements, but differently across partisan audiences. Republican voters strongly favor the home country having veto power, whereas Democrats prefer agreements with equal voting rules. These differences are largely driven by perceptions of the agreement’s benefit for the nation and the public’s trust of the negotiators and perceived fairness of the rules.

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“…Only a very limited number of contributions use this approach. In particular, earlier work by Bechtel et al (2014Bechtel et al ( , 2017 has explored German citizens' attitudes towards bail-outs, while, more recently, Hahm et al (2019) have looked into the role of institutional reforms in determining support for European integration. The design of the current experiment is partly led by the experience from an earlier project (Vandenbroucke et al, 2018.…”

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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence From a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona

Beetsma

Nicoli

Ruijter³

et al. 2020

SSRN Journal

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Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU instrument generally and across the sample countries. Support is broader when budgetary support is conditional on debt reduction in normal times and spent in specific policy areas, in particular healthcare and education. Support also increases when there is a role for the European Commission in terms of monitoring and providing guidance. However, there is little support for policy packages that terminate a program and impose a fine in the case of noncompliance. Further, there is broad acceptance of long-run redistribution towards poorer countries. Financing the assistance through a progressive tax increase is more popular than through a flat tax increase. In general, there is substantial scope for constructing assistance packages that command a majority support in all sample countries. The survey was fielded in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, in which the prospect of a severe economic shock became realistic. However, the results of our survey are based on respondent views in a (partially) pre-political environment: respondents had the opportunity to reason and form their own opinion about the assistance package before concrete policy proposals were debated by political parties that seek the edges of polarization.

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Who Settles Disputes? Treaty Design and Trade Attitudes Toward the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

Swaying citizen support for EU membership: Evidence from a survey experiment of German voters

Swaying citizen support for EU membership: Evidence from a survey experiment of German voters

Institutional Design, Information Transmission, and Public Opinion: Making the Case for Trade

What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence From a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona

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