Table 4.

Political Trust and Support for Limiting Foreign Imports, 1988–2012

	DV = Favor Import Limits
Political Trust	−0.108***
	(0.016)
Additional Controls	$✓$
State Fixed Effects	$✓$
Year Fixed Effects	$✓$
Observations	12,628
R${}^2$	0.062

Dependent variable is dichotomous (0 = oppose new limits on foreign imports/haven’t thought much about it; 1 = favor new limits on foreign imports). OLS coefficients with robust standard errors clustered by state in parentheses (a probit model yields very similar results). Source is the 1988–2012 Cumulative ANES

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1, two-tailed. See Appendix Table B2 for the full model