This book tackles the disconnect between social perceptions and expert knowledge regarding trade policy decisions. Using a Polish language internet database, the authors shed light on areas that need to be addressed when considering the adoption of particular trade policies by applying content and statistical analysis to produce an easy to deploy measure of populism in digital media, the “Media Populism Ratio”. Defining a mismatch between social perception and expert knowledge may contribute to a better understanding of the controversies on free trade, as well as properly defining possible sources of populism and social conflicts – therefore also revealing some potential weaknesses in the trade policy implementation level which are at times neglected or underestimated. The book will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic policy, economic narratives and cultural economics.
Author(s): Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak; Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin; Piotr Lis
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 181
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
About the Authors
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Free Trade or Trade Wars: Retrospective Worldview
2.1 International Trade Map: Challengers and Defenders
2.2 How Free Is International Trade Today?
2.3 Seven Agreements
2.4 Summarising Remarks
References
Chapter 3: Free Trade or Trade Wars: Controversies, Political Interests, and Narratives
3.1 Attitudes Towards Trade
3.2 Economic Consensus: Interrupted Narrative
3.3 “New Preachers on When Calls the Heart”
3.4 A New Narrative? There Is Always an Angle
3.5 Summarising Remarks
References
Chapter 4: Globalisation and International Trade in the Eyes of the Polish Society
4.1 Is Liberalism “Right” or “Left” in Poland?
4.2 Attitudes Towards International Trade
4.3 Attitudes Towards TTIP and Globalisation
4.4 Summarising Remarks
References
Chapter 5: Academic Expert Knowledge on Free Trade
5.1 How the Polish-Language Literature Compares to Its European Counterparts
5.2 Polish FTA Literature: The Sample
5.3 Expected Effects of FTAs
5.4 Expert Knowledge Dictionary
5.5 Summarising Remarks
Appendix
References
Chapter 6: Online Free Trade Discourse: Expert Knowledge and Attitudes
6.1 Exploratory Analysis
6.2 Media and Internet Popularity of FTAs in Poland and Other Countries
6.3 The FTA Narrative
6.4 Expert Knowledge in the Online Content
6.4.1 Heterogeneity of Results Across FTAs and Media Outlets
6.4.2 Types and Categories of Most Frequently Debated Issues
6.5 Summarising Remarks
References
Chapter 7: Sentiment and Emotions in the Popular FTA Discourse
7.1 Polarisation of Sentiment
7.2 Emotions
7.3 Qualitative Analysis: Internet Debate on CETA Case Study
7.3.1 Polarising Narratives in the Articles
“Red herring”
“Messiah 2.0”
“Antiglobalism, anticorporationism, fatigue neoliberalism”
7.3.2 Polarisation in Comments on CETA
7.4 Summarising Remarks
References
Chapter 8: Media and Populism
8.1 Populism’s “express yourself”
8.2 Media Populism Ratio
8.3 Summarising Remarks
References
Index
