This article provides new evidence on the determinants of individual trade-policy preferences using individual-level survey data for the United States. There are two main empirical results. First, we find that factor type dominates industry of employment in explaining support for trade barriers. Second, we find that home ownership also matters for individuals’ trade-policy preferences. Independ...

Although parties’ preferences for office and policy goals have been featured by many rational choice models of party behavior a majority coalition theories, the literature still lacks measure comprehensive analysis how vary among parties across countries. This study aims to fill this gap presenting results an original expert survey protocol, which finds that pursue both simultaneously as is sou...