Offshoring and the Ballot: a Central Bank Paper's Question

The Bank of Canada has published a paper studying the impact of offshoring by US firms on voting patterns for incumbents in the US. The pairing is what makes it interesting: a firm's decision to move work abroad, and the electoral fate of the politicians who happen to be in office when it happens. If voters do connect the two, the politics of trade is not only about prices and jobs; it is also about who catches the blame.