2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
U.S. Public's Opposition to International Trade Agreements: Formation of Trade Preferences through Generalized Trust
Project/Area Number |
20K22072
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
0106:Political science and related fields
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Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
Principal Investigator |
Fujita Masafumi 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 特任研究員 (80882878)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2022-03-31
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Keywords | 貿易選好 / 保護主義 / 一般的信頼 / 経済的利益 / 産業構造 / 第三次産業化(tertiarization) / アメリカ / 市民 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study was to elucidate why some portions of the U.S. public in recent years have become critical of international trade agreements, against their economic interests. To this end, I constructed and tested a hypothesis that a combination of the following two factors has increased opposition to international trade agreements. The first factor is that generalized trust (trust in strangers with different backgrounds) came to have a strong influence on the U.S. public’s trade preferences as the tertiarization of the U.S. economy declined the visibility of economic interests from trade. The second factor is the long-term decline in the generalized trust of the U.S. public as a result of widening inequality. The results of my analysis supported the above hypothesis, except for the part that widening inequality is the main cause of the decline in generalized trust.
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Free Research Field |
国際政治経済学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は米国市民の貿易協定に対する反発について新たな因果メカニズムとその経験的根拠を提示した。すなわち、米国におけるサービス産業への移行と一般的信頼の低下が、特に一般的信頼が低い傾向がある新たな共和党支持層において貿易協定への反発を引き起こしていることを明らかにできた。これは、国際貿易秩序を動揺させている近年の米国の保護主義について、その原因の理解と解決策の提示に貢献するものである。さらに、サービス産業への移行は先進国全体で広く見られる傾向であり、今後もし他の国でも同様の傾向が確認できれば、先進国市民の貿易選好の形成メカニズムとして重要な知見が得られると期待される。
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