Harnessing Thai Culture to Prevent Human Trafficking

• In Event: Political Communication, Protest, Activism, and Violence

Brief Overview

We investigate whether culture or nationalism can help solve social problems. We find that nationalism has no effect on increasing support for social issues, but that invoking Thai culture increases women’s support of a policy to tackle the issue.

Authors

• Marcos F. Gallo, California Institute of Technology

• Reed Rasband, Harvard University

• Joel Sawat Selway, Brigham Young University-Provo