{"id":8998,"date":"2021-06-16T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:47:06","slug":"domestic-institutions-geographic-concentration-and-agricultural-liberalization-evidence-from-remote-sensed-cropland-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2021\/06\/16\/8998\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201dDomestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization Evidence from Remote-Sensed Cropland Data\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, July 8, 2021, Professor Megumi Naoi (University of California, San Diego) will deliver the following public seminar. We look forward to your participation.<\/p>\n<h4>\u201dDomestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization: Evidence from Remote-Sensed Cropland Data\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/quote.ucsd.edu\/mnaoi\/\">Megumi Naoi<\/a> (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong> July (Thu) 8, 2021, 10:40-12:10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Zoom meeting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration:<\/strong> Click <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3vljPo4\">here<\/a> for registration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p>Open to members of Waseda University and the general public, free admission<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the persistent obstacles to trade liberalization is a government&#8217;s inability to commit and deliver compensation to trade losers. This paper demonstrates that credible commitments to compensatory policies hinges on inter-branch contract whereby an executive branch promises redistributive compensation in exchange for legislative support of ratification.<\/p>\n<p>We offer a theory that constitutional structures interact with the geographic concentration of industries to affect the costs of forming and enforcing a compensation contract. Specifically, we argue that geographic concentration facilitates the contract enforcement within a party in parliamentary systems with a smaller number of concerned legislators whereas geographic diffusion promotes coalition-building among larger number of legislators in presidential systems to support liberalization.<\/p>\n<p>We test this argument using new data on product-level agricultural trade liberalization and remote-sensed cropland data in 48 democracies. We find that parliamentary (presidential) systems are more likely to liberalize geographically concentrated (diffused) products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizer:<\/strong> Yuriko Takahashi (ytakahashi@waseda.jp)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong> Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Top Global University Project; Empirical and Positive Political Science Workshop; Waseda Institute of Political Economy, Waseda University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, July 8, 2021, Professor Megumi Naoi (University of California, San Diego) will deliver the follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[83,99],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-en-eape"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}