ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Protectionism in Place: Explaining How Subnational Change Affects Public Support for Protectionism
After a period of hyperglobalization, protectionist policies have become more entrenched over the past decade. States have produced a slew of domestic subsidies, tariffs, and labor migration policies––policies that can benefit certain industries, but are likely to curtail growth, employment, and multilateral economic cooperation. Why citizens support protectionism that is costly to them is a central puzzle in International Political Economy public opinion research. Although no consensus has been reached to explain this puzzle, the field remains focused on the individual- and national-level determinants of attitude formation toward protectionism, missing subnational determinants in the…
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