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Protectionism in Place: Explaining How Subnational Change Affects Public Support for Protectionism

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estern and non-western countries. Second, it compiles and creates measures of subnational ecological, economic, and sociocultural change. Third, it leverages experimental, instrumental variables, and machine learning methods to establish when, how and why subnational change has a causal effect on public support for protectionism. Overall, given the daunting cost of protectionism still on the rise, we urgently need to understand why some citizens support, while others oppose, protectionism. PROTECT will enable understanding the impact of subnational change on support for protectionism. This will reorient research in International Political Economy and related behavioral research fields to incorporate the subnational context, and provide an evidence base meant to engender better economic policy. Machine learning; public opinion; survey experiments.

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award

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SIGNED

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EU

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1995155

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EUR