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Record W4407576327 · doi:10.4337/9781035326570.00010

Populism's attack on liberalized trade – and a victory over NAFTA?

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407576327 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Mark R. Brawley

Bibliographic record

VenueEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicGlobal trade and economics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVictoryPopulismInternational tradePolitical scienceEconomicsLawPolitics

Abstract

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Populism has surged in North America in recent decades, boosting Donald Trump into power. Populists criticize liberalized trade for causing a wide range of problems. Trump's victory provides us the opportunity to review populists’ complaints about trade specifically, in the concrete form of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Were those criticisms well-founded? Trump initially set out to withdraw from NAFTA, but this became a push to modify the agreement. Were the changes in line with populists’ concerns? Is the new US–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) likely to resolve some of the problems populists focus on? To answer these questions, I review populists’ agenda on trade, its impact on the Trump Administration, and on NAFTA.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.076

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0060.011
Scholarly communication0.0100.007
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.163 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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