Women voters and trade protectionism in the interwar years

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This paper examines the lessons of the interwar period to place current concerns regarding a return to protectionism in historical context, highlighting the unique and one-time changes in voting rights that took place during the period and their relationship with trade policy. A particularly novel finding is the impact of women voters on the politics of protectionism. Public opinion survey evidence from the interwar years indicates that women were more likely to hold protectionist attitudes than men, while panel data analysis of average tariff rates during the interwar period shows that when women were entitled to vote tariffs were, on average, higher. This result is supported by an instrumental variables approach using Protestantism as an instrument for female voting rights.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: QUCEH Working Paper Series ; No. 15-03

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: General, International, or Comparative ; Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: General, International, or Comparative ; International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy: General
• Thema: political economy ; suffrage ; international trade ; gender differences

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): de Bromhead, Alan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
• (wo): Belfast
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/110946
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ