Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence

Anna Maria Mayda worked on this project during her stay as a Visiting Academic at the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She would like to thank the Institute for all the resources it provided. Kevin O'Rourke started working on the project while he was a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow. He would like to thank the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for their generous funding. Richard Sinnott would like to thank his co-investigators on the ASES (Asia-Europe Survey) project - Jean Blondel, Takashi Inoguchi, Ikuo Kabashima and Ian Marsh for much enjoyable and fruitful collaboration. The ASES project, which produced the data set used in this paper, was supported by a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science (Scientific Research Grant # 11102001, Principal Investigator: Takashi Inoguchi). The authors would also like to thank Marc Busch and Dani Rodrik for insightful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.