Belligerence Benefits: Public Opinion and Audience Costs in Trade Wars

• In Event: New Directions in Audience Costs

Brief Overview

We explore the domestic conditions of trade war escalation dynamics using a survey experiment on a national representative sample of 1,605 U.S. voters. We find that, unlike in the security context, belligerence is rewarded in trade war escalation.

Author

• Joonseok Yang, University of California, Irvine