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Scholars have shown that the ways in which beneficiaries of policies are portrayed by elites have an important impact on the preferences of the public regarding these policies. This paper builds upon these theoretical insights, but unlike the existing literature, which focuses mainly on domestic policies and relies on experimental settings, we analyze foreign policy issues from a comparative perspective. More specifically, we examine the respective attitudes of the American and Mexican public toward political and economic ramifications of NAFTA ten years after the agreement was signed using data from national samples from both countries. This comparative framework allows us to take advantage of the natural experiment by comparing two different elite frames of similar issues in both countries, thus significantly improving the external validity of the study.Political leaders in Mexico and the U.S., respectively, faced very different tasks in convincing the general public of the benefits of NAFTA. Mexican political leaders presented NAFTA as an entry ticket for Mexico into the family of industrialized countries. Even though the United States has been frequently considered as more of a partner in conflict than an ally, Mexico was willing to overcome seventy years of nationalistic foreign policy and open its economy. Thus, we should expect the Mexican public?s support for NAFTA to be affected more by people?s attitudes toward the United States and less by the particular benefits that NAFTA brings to the Mexican economy, especially because the Mexican public perceives the U.S. to be the main beneficiary of the agreement. On the other hand, the United States was faced with a different challenge in presenting the agreement to the public. American political leaders framed the debate about NAFTA in terms of the threat from the rising economic power of Japan and the European Union. In addition, NAFTA?s potential positive impact on the American economy played a central role in rallying public opinion in support for the agreement. Hence, we would expect the American public?s support for NAFTA to be more influenced by their feelings toward competing countries and their perceptions of NAFTA?s benefits for American businesses and the U.S. economy. We test these hypotheses using a unique comparative survey of public opinion in Mexico and the U.S. This inaugural survey was collected in July 2004 as part of a joint venture by the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations, CIDE, and COMEXI. Thus, this is the most up-to-date comprehensive study of the foreign policy attitudes of these two different but closely linked economic partners.American and Mexican public opinion surveys include a plethora of questions regarding different aspects of support for NAFTA as well as perceptions of and attitudes toward trade policy beneficiaries. Using this unique dataset, we are able to analyze a more comprehensive picture of political preferences formation. A foreign policy often benefits several groups. This dataset allows us to compare the impact of affective attitudes toward both domestic and international groups benefiting from the economic changes caused by NAFTA interacted with elite political framing. |
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Name: International Studies Association
URL: http://www.isanet.org
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| Cedillo, Laura. "Issue Framing and Public Opinion on Trade Policy between Mexico and the United States Laura Cedillo and Julia Rabinovich" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97889_index.html> |
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| Cedillo, L. E. , 2006-03-22 "Issue Framing and Public Opinion on Trade Policy between Mexico and the United States Laura Cedillo and Julia Rabinovich" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97889_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Scholars have shown that the ways in which beneficiaries of policies are portrayed by elites have an important impact on the preferences of the public regarding these policies. This paper builds upon these theoretical insights, but unlike the existing literature, which focuses mainly on domestic policies and relies on experimental settings, we analyze foreign policy issues from a comparative perspective. More specifically, we examine the respective attitudes of the American and Mexican public toward political and economic ramifications of NAFTA ten years after the agreement was signed using data from national samples from both countries. This comparative framework allows us to take advantage of the natural experiment by comparing two different elite frames of similar issues in both countries, thus significantly improving the external validity of the study.Political leaders in Mexico and the U.S., respectively, faced very different tasks in convincing the general public of the benefits of NAFTA. Mexican political leaders presented NAFTA as an entry ticket for Mexico into the family of industrialized countries. Even though the United States has been frequently considered as more of a partner in conflict than an ally, Mexico was willing to overcome seventy years of nationalistic foreign policy and open its economy. Thus, we should expect the Mexican public?s support for NAFTA to be affected more by people?s attitudes toward the United States and less by the particular benefits that NAFTA brings to the Mexican economy, especially because the Mexican public perceives the U.S. to be the main beneficiary of the agreement. On the other hand, the United States was faced with a different challenge in presenting the agreement to the public. American political leaders framed the debate about NAFTA in terms of the threat from the rising economic power of Japan and the European Union. In addition, NAFTA?s potential positive impact on the American economy played a central role in rallying public opinion in support for the agreement. Hence, we would expect the American public?s support for NAFTA to be more influenced by their feelings toward competing countries and their perceptions of NAFTA?s benefits for American businesses and the U.S. economy. We test these hypotheses using a unique comparative survey of public opinion in Mexico and the U.S. This inaugural survey was collected in July 2004 as part of a joint venture by the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations, CIDE, and COMEXI. Thus, this is the most up-to-date comprehensive study of the foreign policy attitudes of these two different but closely linked economic partners.American and Mexican public opinion surveys include a plethora of questions regarding different aspects of support for NAFTA as well as perceptions of and attitudes toward trade policy beneficiaries. Using this unique dataset, we are able to analyze a more comprehensive picture of political preferences formation. A foreign policy often benefits several groups. This dataset allows us to compare the impact of affective attitudes toward both domestic and international groups benefiting from the economic changes caused by NAFTA interacted with elite political framing. |
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