Introduction -- The changing landscape of trade and trade knowledge -- Trade preferences and politics -- Economic vulnerability, self-interest, and individual trade preferences -- Community and trade preferences -- Racial diversity and white Americans' support for trade protection -- The negative perceptions of trade's national effect -- Could positive information shift national level beliefs? -- Conclusions -- References
Summary
American Opinion on Trade provides a multi-method examination of the sources of attitudes, drawing on survey data and experimental surveys; it also traces how trade issues become intertwined with attitudes toward redistribution as well as gender and race