Download or read book Global Trade, National News Frames, and State Public Opinion written by Josephine Lukito and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though scholars have often recognized the importance of news media in explaining foreign trade policy and globalization, few studies have empirically tested the relationship between the economic impacts of trade, news media, and public opinion. One key factor potentially mediating their relationship is geography: how increasing international trade influences a country may vary depending on local economies. At the same time, local news organizations (and audiences) have shifted their focus toward national news, which may also mean that people are not consuming local information about trade consequences. Using the U.S.-China trade shock as a case, I explore how national and state-level news media framing of U.S.-China trade and the manufacturing job market relate to U.S. citizens' perceptions of the local job market and U.S. President. The China shock refers to the economic impact of increasing Chinese export on the domestic economy, with a specific focus on how exports harmed domestic manufacturing employment. To analyze the relationship between the China shock, news coverage of U.S.-China trade, and public opinion, I begin with a linguistically informed framing analysis of news articles about U.S.-China trade in national print media, national television, and state-level newspapers. The three news frames-pro-trade, anti-trade, and anti-China frames-are identified using lexico-syntactic, medium-specific, manually validated dictionaries. I then perform time series analysis to illustrate how the relationship between the China shock, news coverage, and public opinion vary by geographic region. Results from my analysis highlight two opposing trends. First: the persistence of the China shock from 2008 to 2018 vary greatly, even in states that rely on manufacturing. However, news coverage about U.S.-China trade in in both local and national outlets focused on national economic trends. As a result, people's perception of both the local economy and national politics were informed by a misapplication of national information to the state-level context.