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We address international trade as the second part of our empirical analysis of public opinion. We begin by considering whether survey respondents view trade as, on balance, a good thing or a bad thing. More specifically, as we are interested in the potential influence of cultural differences on public opinion, we examine whether opinions of trade are significantly related to the cultural distance between the respondents’ countries of residence and its trading partners. In total, our data set includes responses from individuals in 37 countries. This is followed by the examination of public opinion on three trade-related topics—namely, the influence of international trade on domestic wages, employment, and prices in the countries in which the survey respondents live.
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White, R. (2017). Cross-Societal Cultural Differences and the Shaping of Opinions on International Trade. In: Public Opinion on Economic Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58103-3_7
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