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To Trade Or Not To Trade: Public Opinion And Trade Liberalization In Chile, Nicholas J. Surkala Ii
To Trade Or Not To Trade: Public Opinion And Trade Liberalization In Chile, Nicholas J. Surkala Ii
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Public opinion polling has been a major source of information regarding opinion data from respondents within a geographical area. Trade liberalization, or reducing barriers to trade, has been a source of controversy throughout history, more recently since the world has globalized. In this paper, four social factors will be analyzed based on responses to public opinion questions to determine if these factors influence people’s opinions on trade liberalization. Chile has been used as a model for successful trade liberalization in Latin America, and is the country analyzed in this paper.
The public opinion data gathered from Latino Barometer surveys will …