Daniel Verdier

Democracy and International Trade

Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this ambitious exploration of how foreign trade policy is made in democratic regimes, Daniel Verdier shows that special interests, party ideologues, and state officials and diplomats act as agents of the voters. Constructing a general theory in which existing theories (rent-seeking, median voting, state autonomy) function as partial explanations, he shows that trade institutions are not fixed entities but products of political competition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780691021034
• ISBN-10: 0691021031
• Artikelnr.: 21089189

Autorenporträt

Daniel Verdier

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
1
Trade and the Voter: A Survey of the Existing Literature
3
2
The Electoral Regulation of Access
9
3
The Trade Policy Process: A Typology
26
4
Origins of the Trade Policy Process
36
5
The Making of Trade Policy
48
6
The Case Studies
63
7
Descent into Depression, 1860-86
69
8
Crisis and Response, 1887-1913
106
9
First World War, 1914-18
150
10
Tariff-Making and State-Building, 1919-39
158
11
Creation of the Cold War Trading Regime, 1940-62
201
12
The Rise and Fall of Industrial Policy, 1963-89
242
Epilogue: Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Future of Existing
Arrangements, 1990 to the Present
288
13
Conclusion
290
Appendix One: Mathematical Appendix to Chapter Two
297
Appendix Two: Tariff Levels
304
Appendix Three: Partisan Bias in Voting on Trade Bills
306
Notes
313
Bibliography
345
Index
371

Rezensionen

Political scientists will love this book and historians will find much in it to hold their attention. Economists are strongly advised to take note of it, lest they are too easily persuaded to dismiss the contribution of political processes to trade policy-making.