PINPOINT pursues three interconnected research themes — each a different dimension of how domestic production networks shape the politics of economic globalisation.
How does the structure of domestic production networks shape governments' policy responses to economic globalisation? This theme investigates the conditions under which governments adopt protectionist or liberal trade policies as a function of the network ties among domestic firms.
To what extent do production-network ties shape the formation of individual preferences over trade and globalisation? This theme develops and tests new theoretical models of how indirect exposure to global markets — through supply-chain linkages — shapes mass preferences.
How do political institutions shape the domestic production networks, and how do these networks in turn reshape institutional outcomes? This theme examines the two-way relationship between institutions and production network structures.
PINPOINT combines a novel theoretical framework with datasets on firm-level production ties with survey experiments, computational social science tools, and observational data.