Women voters and trade protectionism in the interwar years

Bromhead, Alan de

doi:10.1093/oep/gpx028

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“…The only related research on the topic asks how women’s suffrage reshaped trade policy and yields competing results. Hall, Kao, and Nelson (1998) argue that women gaining the franchise in the United States led to a reduction in trade barriers, whereas De Bromhead (2018) examines 30 countries during the interwar period and concludes that women’s suffrage led to an increase in trade barriers. Neither examines the effects of women’s representation in parties or government.…”

Section: The Gender Gap In Trade Preferencesmentioning

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Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy?

2023

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Women have more protectionist trade preferences than men do. We assess whether this well-documented relationship between gender and protectionism in the mass public carries over into a relationship between women’s political representation and (a) party platforms, and (b) governments’ trade policy choices. Looking across countries and over time, we demonstrate that with an increase in women’s representation, political party trade policy positions become more protectionist. For government trade policy choices, we identify more nuanced results. The protectionist effect of women’s representation is limited to the most visible products: consumption goods. Women’s representation has no effect on intermediate inputs, where firm demands for trade liberalization are more pronounced and policy makers are thus constrained in implementing a protectionist agenda. These findings contribute to scholarship on the descriptive–substantive representation link, add a new dimension to our understanding of trade politics, and demonstrate the importance of applying a gendered lens to international political economy research.

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Section: The Gender Gap In Trade Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2023

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“…Por fim, destacam-se duas outras abordagens que se afastam da explicação assentada no autointeresse econômico. A primeira enfatiza a diferença entre gêneros (gender gap) na avaliação da globalização e do livre comércio internacional, mostrando que, em geral, as mulheres são mais protecionistas (Beaulieu e Napier, 2008;Burgoon e Hiscox, 2008;Drope e Chowdhury, 2014;Mansfield, Mutz e Silver, 2015;Kagitani e Harimaya, 2017;Bromhead, 2018). Burgoon e Hiscox (2008) e Hiscox (2006) atribuem preferências distintas entre gêneros em razão de o número de homens em cursos de economia ser maior do que o de mulheres.…”

Section: Opinião Pública Globalização E Livre Comérciounclassified

“…A segunda abordagem considera que a avaliação feita pelos indivíduos sobre os parceiros comerciais influi nas suas atitudes em relação ao livre comércio. Simpatia pelo país parceiro seria mais importante do que o cálculo autointeressado dos benefícios ou FLÁVIO PINHEIRO; IVAN FILIPE FERNANDES; MARIA HERMINIA TAVARES DE ALMEIDA desvantagens de acordos de livre comércio (Chiang, Liu e Wen, 2013;DiGiuseppe e Kleinberg, 2018;Hicks, Milner e Tingley, 2014;Naoi e Urata, 2013;Spilker, Bernauer e Umaña, 2016, 2018.…”

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O bolso ou a ideologia? Determinantes da opinião dos brasileiros sobre globalização e livre comércio

2021

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Resumo O artigo discute os determinantes das opiniões dos brasileiros sobre a integração da economia brasileira aos mercados globais, analisando dados de survey nacional, realizado no âmbito do projeto “O Brasil, as Américas e o mundo”. Mostramos que os brasileiros, em boa medida, são favoráveis à abertura internacional de nossa economia e que suas atitudes são guiadas tanto por motivações econômicas como por ideias e valores políticos. A baixa exposição da economia brasileira à concorrência externa parece contribuir para a existência de opiniões favoráveis a maior acesso a bens importados. A posição ideológica, por sua vez, age como um filtro dessas percepções independentemente das condições econômicas dos indivíduos. Assim, evidências indicam que a posição do indivíduo como consumidor, sua ideologia política e suas visões nacionalistas influem em suas opiniões sobre globalização e livre comércio. Os resultados confirmam estudos anteriores sobre o mesmo tema feitos em países em desenvolvimento.

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Pandemics and protectionism: evidence from the “Spanish” flu

Boberg-Fazlic

Lampe

Pedersen

et al. 2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The impact of COVID-19 on recent tendencies towards international isolationism has been much speculated on but remains to be seen. We suggest that valuable evidence can be gleaned from the “Spanish” flu of 1918–20. It is well-known that the world fell into a protectionist spiral following the First World War, but scholars have almost exclusively ignored the impact of the pandemic. We employ a difference-in-differences strategy and find that the flu had a significant impact on trade policy, independent of the war. In our preferred specification, a one standard deviation increase in excess deaths during the outbreak implied 0.022 percentage points higher tariffs subsequently, corresponding to an increase of one third of a standard deviation in tariffs. Health policy should aim to avoid the experience of the interwar period and consider the international macroeconomic impact of measures (not) taken.

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Women voters and trade protectionism in the interwar years

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Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy?

Do Women Make More Protectionist Trade Policy?

O bolso ou a ideologia? Determinantes da opinião dos brasileiros sobre globalização e livre comércio

Pandemics and protectionism: evidence from the “Spanish” flu

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