EconPapers: Protectionism: Trade Policy in Democratic Societies EconPapers Economics at
your fingertips EconPapers Home About EconPapers Working Papers Journal Articles Books …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Harwood Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics THE
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROTECTION he ap Harwood Fundamentals of Pure and Applied …

Previous institutional explanations of trade policy have focused on the role of proportional
representation on the promotion of free trade. This explanation generates numerous …

Three questions lie at the core of the large and distinguished literature on the political
economy of trade policy. First, why is international trade not free? Second, why are trade …

If free trade is as optimal as economists argue, then why has protectionism been so
prevalent? Politics, of course. Markets and states are struggling to come to terms with one …

While there has been a prodigious amount of literature on trade policy written in the past two
decades, very little of that literature has dealt with countries in economic transition or …

Conventional wisdom holds that free trade is economically beneficial to nations. But this
does not prevent industries and interest groups from lobbying their governments for …

A perennial paradox in political science is that weak actors often prevail in confrontations
with more powerful actors. This article explores this problem in the context of the world …

In order to explain the prevalence and persistence of trade protection, a large body of work
that departs from the notion of welfare maximizing governments and emphasizes instead …

Even if a democracy were more likely to pursue free trade than an autocracy (an unproven
generalization), the simultaneous spread of democracy in the world would not necessarily …