POLI 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Trade Organization, Standard Deviation, Blame Canada
30 Jan 2018
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Individuals think with regards to the benefit of trade with their factor of production. Actions: we know that preferences are not enough to influence policy, what connects preferences and policy is mobilization, thus far we have only been looking at survey-based preferences. Busch and reinhardt: hypothesize that among trade-exposed industries, those more geographically concentrated are likely to exhibit greater political mobilization. But if you"re close enough together, it can counteract that effect: political concentration, the extent to which you"re all found in one political district /congressional/legislative district. Information - easier to diffuse information to people close to you: creates dense social networks, common identity. Transactions costs go down with greater geographical concentration. Disadvantage in trade terms of the area of your region, Some ho measure of your exposure to trade, and were going to interact that with geo concentration: geographic concentration is the dummy variable. Factor or industry: some effect of education in and of itself.
