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86 YHUVXV 7 KHP 0 DVV $WWLWXGHV WRZDUG 2 IIVKRUH 2 XWVRXUFLQJ(GZDUG ' 0 DQVILHOG 'LDQD & 0XW] world politics , Volume 65, Number 4, October 2013, pp. 571-608 (Article)3 XEOLVKHG E\ &DPEULGJH 8 QLYHUVLW\ 3 UHVVDOI: additional information about this article Access provided by University Of Pennsylvania (23 Jan 2015 20:46 GMT) VERSUS Themmass Attitudes toward Offshore OutsourcingBY edwArd d. mAnSfield and diAnA C. mUTz*The movement of jobs overseas has caused mounting anxiety in the United States over the past decade. Variously referred to as outsourcing, offshoring, or offshore outsourcing, this phe-nomenon first started to arouse concern in the US at the turn of the twenty-first century, when the conclusion of an economic downturn was followed by a tepid recovery in the US labor market. As China, india, and the post-Communist states took steps to increase their en-gagement with the global economy, an extra billion workers joined the global workforce, nearly doubling its size and raising fears that US firms would relocate jobs overseas to cut labor This issue rose to prominence during the 2004 presidential election, when Senator John Kerry accused President George w.)

574 woRld politicS equating outsourcing with trade precipitated a political firestorm, but his views on this topic are widely shared among economists. Below we turn to a discussion of the three leading models used to explain public attitudes toward trade and that, by extension, might ex-

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