Identity Politics and Trade Policy

We characterize trade policies that result from political competition when assessments of well-being include both material and psychosocial components. The material component reflects, as usual, satisfaction from consumption. Borrowing from social identity theory, we take the psychosocial component

本研究刻画了福祉评估同时涵盖物质与社会心理两个维度时，政治竞争所引致的贸易政策特征。其中物质维度一如学界惯例，指代消费所带来的满足感。本研究借鉴社会认同理论（social identity theory），对社会心理维度进行界定。