Is a Free Trade Agreement More than Merely a Trade Policy? People's Preferences for Free Trade Agreements and the Security Factor

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Foreign Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1093/fpa/orad012

Taisuke Fujita

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Abstract

What determines people's preferences regarding trade policy? Existing studies have assumed that people consider trade policy merely trade politics; accordingly, these studies have focused on economic factors, such as benefits to individual or national welfare; ideational factors, such as xenophobia; or domestic political factors. This paper reveals that the international political factor of national security influences ordinary people's preferences for trade policy. While several studies have addressed the effect of the national security factor, they did not persuasively reveal the causal mechanism of the relationship between the national security factor and people's trade preferences. The present study conducted a factorial survey experiment to investigate the causal effect and the causal mechanism of the security factor on people's preferences regarding free trade agreements (FTAs). The results of the experiment conducted in Japan reveal that ordinary people consider the national security factor along the so-called realism path in forming their opinions regarding FTAs.

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自由贸易协定不仅仅是一项贸易政策吗？人民对自由贸易协定的偏好与安全因素

是什么决定了人们对贸易政策的偏好？现有研究认为，人们认为贸易政策仅仅是贸易政治；因此，这些研究集中在经济因素上，例如对个人或国家福利的好处；思想因素，如仇外心理；或国内政治因素。本文揭示了国家安全的国际政治因素影响着普通民众对贸易政策的偏好。虽然有几项研究涉及国家安全因素的影响，但它们并没有令人信服地揭示国家安全因素与人们贸易偏好之间关系的因果机制。本研究采用因子调查实验，考察了安全因素对人们对自由贸易协定偏好的因果效应和因果机制。在日本进行的实验结果表明，普通人在形成对自由贸易协定的看法时，沿着所谓的现实主义道路考虑国家安全因素。

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Foreign Policy Analysis INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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