This paper puts forth a theory explaining domestic backlash against international investment law by connecting media coverage—specifically the bias in the news media’s selection of international disputes—to public opinion formation towards international agreements. To test our theory, we examine both the content and effects of the media’s reporting on international disputes, focusing on the increasingly controversial form known as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). We find that newspaper outlets in both the United States and Canada have a bias in favor of covering disputes filed against their home country as opposed to those filed by home country firms. Using two national survey experiments fielded in the United States and Canada, we further find that the bias in news story selection has a strong negative effect on attitudes towards ISDS and related agreements, especially among highly nationalistic individuals.

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“国际投资争端、媒体报道和对国际法的强烈反对”

本文提出了一个理论，通过将媒体报道——特别是新闻媒体选择国际争端的偏见——与国际协议的舆论形成联系起来，来解释国内对国际投资法的强烈反对。为了检验我们的理论，我们检查了媒体对国际争端报道的内容和影响，重点关注日益引起争议的投资者-国家争端解决 (ISDS) 形式。我们发现，美国和加拿大的报纸都倾向于报道针对本国提起的争议，而不是本国公司提起的争议。使用在美国和加拿大进行的两项全国性调查实验，