Presentation topic 2: How do political factors influence incentives for open versus closed economies?

Suggested readings:

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Uncertainty [The Case of Trade],” AER 81:1146-55 Dec 1991.

Grossman, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman, “Protection for Sale,” AER 84, Sep 1994, pp. 833-50.

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McGillivray, Fiona. 1997. “Party Discipline as a Determinant of the Endogenous Formation of Tariffs.” American Journal of Political Science 41(2): 584-607.

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Alt, James, Michael Gilligan, Dani Rodrik, Ronald Rogowski, “The Political Economy of International Trade,” Comparative Political Studies 29:689-717.

Pincus, Jonathan, “Pressure Groups and the Pattern of Tariffs,” JPE 1975, 757-78.

Riezman, Raymond and John D. Wilson, “Politics and Trade Policy,” in Banks and Hanushek, eds., Modern Political Economy, pp. 108-44.

Wallerstein, Michael, “Unemployment, Collective Bargaining, and the Demand for Protection,” AJPS 31(4), November 1987, pp. 729-52.

Laverne, Real, The Political Economy of US Tariffs (1983), pp. 67-171.

McKeown, Timothy J. “A Liberal Trade Order? The Long-Run Pattern of Imports to the Advanced Capitalist States,” ISQ 35(2), June 1991, pp. 151-71.

Bhagwati, Jagdish, Protectionism (1988), esp. chs. 1-3.

Krugman, “Is Free Trade Passe?” J Ec Perspectives 1(2), Fall 1987, pp. 131-44.

Aggarwal, Vinod, Robert Keohane, and David Yoffie, “The Dynamics of Negotiated Protectionism,” APSR 81(2), June 1987, pp. 345-66.

Goldstein, Judith, “The Impact of Ideas on Trade Policy,” IO 43(1), Winter 1989.

Goldstein, Judith, “The Political Economy of Trade: Institutions of Protection,” APSR 80(1), 1986, 161-84.

Hansen, Wendy, “The International Trade Commission and the Politics of Protectionism,” APSR 84, 1990, 22-46.

Rogowski, Ronald, Commerce and Coalitions.

Kurth, James, “The Political Consequences of the Product Cycle: Industrial History and Political Outcomes,” International Milner. “The Political Economy of International Trade.” Annual Review of Political Science. V. 2, 1998. (on my website)

Mansfield and Busch. “The Political Economy of Nontariff Barriers: A Cross-National Analysis.” International Organization 1995. v. 49:723-49.

Gawande and Hansen. “Retaliation, Bargaining and the Pursuit of “Free and Fair” Trade.” International Organization. Win 1999. v.53: 117-60.

Recommended:

Midford. “International Trade and Domestic Politics." International Organization. Aut. 1993. 47: 535-64.

Grossman and Helpman. “Protection for Sale.” American Economic Review. 1994. V. 84: 833-50.

Lohmann & O’Halloran. “Divided Government and US Trade Policy.” International Organization. Autumn 1994. Vol. 48: 595-632.

Alt, Frieden, Gilligan, Rodrik, Rogowski. “The Political Economy of International Trade.” Comparative Political Studies. Dec. 1996. V. 29: 689-717.

Rodrik. “Political Economy of Trade Policy.” In G. Grossman and K. Rogoff, eds. Handbook of International Economics. V. 3. Netherlands: Elsevier Science Press.

1995: 1457-94.

Cohen. “The Political Economy of International Trade.” International Organization. Spring 1990. Vol. 44: 261-81.

Organization, 33, 1, pp. 1-36.