a column by Dong Cheng, Mario Crucini, Hyunseung Oh and Hakan Yilmazkuday for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
As the current narrative goes, the loss of US manufacturing jobs is due to competition from China and one way to get the jobs back is by running tariffs up the proverbial flagpole.
This column argues that in the case of the automobile industry, history shows exactly the opposite occurred.
In the early 20th century, the US achieved exceptionalism in innovation, production and trade in automobiles without domestic tariff protection, while foreign nations languished behind high tariff walls designed to protect their fledgling domestic automobile industries.
Continue reading but be careful, a couple of the graphs have what I consider somewhat weird axises.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Morality policy processes in advanced industrial democracies
an article by Donley T. Studlar, Gordon J. Burns and Alessandro Cagossi (West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA) published in Policy Studies Volume 39 Issue 5 (2018)
Abstract
In recent years, several countries have experienced widespread, intense debates about morality issues such as the death penalty, abortion, ART/stem cell research, same-sex marriage, and euthanasia. Assuming the distinctiveness of morality policies from other policy fields, this article analyses three alternative institutional models for explaining variations in the amount of conflict over these morality issues across 24 Western democracies.
Is either the US-developed “policy type” model or the European-developed “two worlds” of morality politics, based on religious and secular party systems, applicable more broadly?
Are there regional patterns (Europe and non-Europe) to any institutional findings?
How does each model contribute to our understanding of morality policy comparatively across Western democracies?
We find broader cross-national support for the policy type model, with the two worlds model largely restricted to Europe. The US has more morality policy conflict because of its unusual combination of a political party targeting religiously oriented voters within an institutional framework of multiple venues.
The US and other non-European countries have similar patterns of institutional deliberation through decentralization, and the US also has similarities in multiple venues with religious party systems in Europe. Secular European party systems with centralized institutions have the fewest venues for morality policy debate.
Abstract
In recent years, several countries have experienced widespread, intense debates about morality issues such as the death penalty, abortion, ART/stem cell research, same-sex marriage, and euthanasia. Assuming the distinctiveness of morality policies from other policy fields, this article analyses three alternative institutional models for explaining variations in the amount of conflict over these morality issues across 24 Western democracies.
Is either the US-developed “policy type” model or the European-developed “two worlds” of morality politics, based on religious and secular party systems, applicable more broadly?
Are there regional patterns (Europe and non-Europe) to any institutional findings?
How does each model contribute to our understanding of morality policy comparatively across Western democracies?
We find broader cross-national support for the policy type model, with the two worlds model largely restricted to Europe. The US has more morality policy conflict because of its unusual combination of a political party targeting religiously oriented voters within an institutional framework of multiple venues.
The US and other non-European countries have similar patterns of institutional deliberation through decentralization, and the US also has similarities in multiple venues with religious party systems in Europe. Secular European party systems with centralized institutions have the fewest venues for morality policy debate.
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