全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Emulation, Backlash, and Public Support for Trade Agreements

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w27497
来源ID	Working Paper 27497
	What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Emulation, Backlash, and Public Support for Trade Agreements
	Chun-Fang Chiang; Jason M. Kuo; Megumi Naoi; Jin-Tan Liu
发表日期	2020-07-13
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	The paper demonstrates voter-based mechanisms underlying policy emulation across countries. We argue that exposure to news about foreign government policies and their effect can change policy preferences of citizens through emulation and backlash against it. These heterogeneous responses arise due to citizens’ divergent predispositions about a foreign country being their peer. We test this argument with coordinated survey experiments in Japan and Taiwan, which randomly assigned news reporting on the South Korea-China trade agreement and solicited support for their government signing an agreement with China. The results suggest that exposure to the news decreases opposition to a trade agreement with China by 6 percentage points in Taiwan (“emulation”) and increases opposition around 8 percentage points in Japan (“backlash”). The results further suggest respondents’ predispositions about peer countries account for the heterogeneity. Our findings caution the optimism about policy convergence across countries as technology lowers the cost of acquiring information.
主题	Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; International Economics ; Trade ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w27497
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585171
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chun-Fang Chiang,Jason M. Kuo,Megumi Naoi,et al. What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Emulation, Backlash, and Public Support for Trade Agreements. 2020.

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