Are girls making extra protectionist commerce coverage?
By Tim Betz, Technical College of Munich, David Fortunato, College of California, San Diego and Copenhagen Enterprise College, Diana Z. O’Brien, Washington College in St. Louis
Girls have extra protectionist commerce preferences than males. We assess whether or not this well-documented relationship between gender and protectionism within the mass public carries over right into a relationship between girls’s political illustration and (a) celebration platforms and (b) governments’ commerce coverage decisions. Wanting throughout nations and over time, we present that with a rise in girls’s illustration, political events’ commerce coverage stances turn into extra protectionist. For the federal government’s commerce coverage decisions, we establish extra nuanced outcomes. The protectionist impact of girls’s illustration is restricted to probably the most seen merchandise: shopper items. Girls’s illustration has no impact on intermediate inputs, the place clear calls for for commerce liberalization are extra pronounced and coverage makers are subsequently constrained to implement a protectionist agenda. These findings contribute to scholarship on the descriptive-substantive illustration hyperlink, add a brand new dimension to our understanding of commerce coverage, and show the significance of making use of a gendered lens to worldwide political economic system analysis.