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Assignment:
What is the role of organized interests, classes, and other social groups in influencing a country's level of trade protection? How can we best understand the trade preferences of domestic groups as well as their power over trade policy outcomes?
How do domestic political institutions mediate the influence of different societal interests on trade policy outcomes? Which sorts of political institutions are associated with free trade and which with protectionism?
Readings
Hankla, Charles and Daniel Kuthy. 2012. Economic Liberalism in Illiberal Regimes: Authoritarian Variation and the Political Economy of Trade. International Studies Quarterly 57 (3): 492-504.
McGillivray, Fiona. 1997. Party Discipline as a Determinant of the Endogenous Formation of Tariffs. American Journal of Political Science 41 (2): 584-607.
Rogowski, Ronald. 1987. Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade. American Political Science Review 81:4: 1121-1137.
Hiscox, Michael J. 2001. Class versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade. International Organization 55: 1-46.
Instruction Papper
Read the above articles and develop a reaction on the questions above. I'd recommend focusing more on the readings rather than speaking more generally about the topic at the beginning. Instead, use the readings to support or oppose a thesis of your own, or, alternatively, analyze them one by one. Be sure that you are able to devote enough space to analyzing the assigned readings above.