response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade … escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries to answer …

economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by … representatives then sets tariffs that are strictly positive. Introducing additional policy instruments reveals a trade-off between …

Previous studies have recognized that campaign contributions and lobbies affect trade policy. However, whether or not … trade policy affects electoral outcome is far less discussed. This paper thus introduces a theoretical framework to explain … how trade platform could affect the vote pattern. Motivated by this, we then estimate such an effect using election data …

The combination of populism and protectionism emerged primarily from social class cleavages during the 20th century, to … when populists shape voters’ preferences over protectionism using elite cues. Cues generate voter polarization by …

The Republican Party has been the party most supportive of free trade in American politics for half a century. Donald … Trump, the 45th US president, held a different stance from his party on free trade. We assess how Trump's China tariffs in …

losing Wisconsin by a few thousand votes. Finally, while US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support, foreign trade war …

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties … subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …

the economic impacts of the trade war tariffs in 2018. I find causal evidence that votes for the incumbent president …

We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote … institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … political parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of …

losing Wisconsin by a few thousand votes. Finally, while US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support, foreign trade war …