scholarly journals Task Routineness and Trade Policy Preferences

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Blonigen ◽  
Jacob McGrew
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Policy Preferences

Divided Government and U.S.Trade Policy: Much Ado About Nothing?

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Karol
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Divided Government ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Consistent Effect ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing

Scholars assert that divided government impedes the liberalization of U.S. trade policy. They claim that presidents favor freer trade and will use the negotiating authority Congress delegates to them to reach agreements lowering trade barriers. Since presidents gain more support from their congressional co-partisans, less liberalization ensues under divided government. This theory rests on the premise that party is unrelated to congressional trade policy preferences beyond legislators' tendencies to support their presidential co-partisans. Yet before 1970 congressional Democrats were relatively free trading regardless of the president's party affiliation. Since then, the same has been true of Republicans. Divided government facilitates the trade policies of presidents from the protectionist party since they win more support from their “opposition” in this area. Divided government does impede the efforts of presidents from the free-trading party to liberalize. I conclude that divided government has no consistent effect on trade policy outcomes.

Trade policy preferences and factor abundance

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina C. Jäkel ◽  
Marcel Smolka
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Factor Abundance

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddie Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPublic 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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