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Trade Wins or Trade Wars The Perceptions and Knowledge in the Free Trade Debate Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak Piotr Lis Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin Trade Wins or Trade Wars Bogna Gawronska-Nowak • Piotr Lis ́ Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin Trade Wins or Trade Wars The Perceptions and Knowledge in the Free Trade Debate Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak Piotr Lis Institute of Urban and Regional Coventry University Development Coventry, UK Warsaw, Poland Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland ISBN 978-3-030-76996-3 ISBN 978-3-030-76997-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76997-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements We would like to express our appreciation to Agnieszka Karlińska from Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, for opening our eyes to the world of digital text analysis and Clarin Project and to Jan Kocoń and Bartłomiej Piotr Bojanowski from Department of Computational Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, who helped us with text analyses using their freshly created new tool. v A b bout the ook 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 underesti- mated. The book will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic policy, economic narratives, and cultural economics. vii c ontents 1 I ntroduction 1 2 Free Trade or Trade Wars: Retrospective Worldview 7 3 Free Trade or Trade Wars: Controversies, Political Interests, and Narratives 23 4 Globalisation and International Trade in the Eyes of the Polish Society 49 5 Academic Expert Knowledge on Free Trade 71 6 Online Free Trade Discourse: Expert Knowledge and Attitudes 101 7 Sentiment and Emotions in the Popular FTA Discourse 131 8 Media and Populism 161 Index 171 ix A A bout the uthors Bogna Gawrońska-Nowak is an associate professor and Head of the EURDATA (Data Science) Department at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, Warsaw, Poland. She was a fellow and visiting researcher at the University of Padua and the University of Glasgow. She has expertise in using multidisciplinary quantitative research methods with a special focus on modelling instabilities and measuring policy effective- ness. She was consulting macroeconomic aspects of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) implementation in Poland for the European Commission Representation in Poland. She has been a senior researcher and principal investigator in various research projects co- financed by well-recognised institutions: the National Bank of Poland, the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland, and the European Commission. Her current research agenda and her research-led teaching focus on the study of public opinion dynamics and social repre- sentations and the development of research methods based on the Citizen Science approach. Piotr Lis is an economist with interests in political economy as well as armed conflict and security studies. He completed his PhD in Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and is employed as Associate Professor of Economics at Coventry University, UK. He is also an associate member of the Research Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity at Coventry. xi xii ABOUT THE AUTHORS His research incorporates elements of economics, political science, and international relations; for example, he studied the sensitivity of public opinion to war-related costs and terrorism. His recent projects analyse the impact of economic sanctions on target countries; linkages between ter- rorism, conflict, and foreign aid; and targeting of civilians in conflicts in Africa. Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin is a sociologist and an associate professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. She combines interests in social sciences methodology and data analysis techniques with studying values and identities in Eastern Europe. Her research focuses on values shared in societies; she is a member of the Polish team of European Values Study. She is the author of articles on Polish and East-E uropean societies, among which there were The East of the West, or the West of the East? Attitudes toward the European Union and European Integration in Poland after 2008. (with Maja Sawicka), “East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures”. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1177/ 0888325420926633) and The meaning of democracy: diverse understand- ings of the concept of democracy in Poland and other European societies. “Polish Sociological Review”. 1/214, 2021. A bbreviAtions CEE Central and Eastern Europe CEFTA Central European Free Trade Agreement CETA Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, sometimes referred to as the Canada–Europe Trade Agreement CLARIN Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure DVA domestic value added EKD Expert Knowledge Dictionary (constructed in Chap. 5) EU European Union EVS European Values Survey FTA Free Trade Agreement FVA Foreign value added GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GVC Global Value Chain(s) LEM Literary Exploration Machine (an NLP tool for Polish language) NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NLP Natural Language Processing TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development USMCA United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement WTO World Trade Organization xiii
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