Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Zanardi, Maurizio - In: Journal of International Economics 94 (2014) 1, pp. 102-118
This paper shows that electoral incentives deter politicians from supporting trade liberalization. We focus on all … major trade liberalization bills introduced since the early 1970s in the U.S. Congress, in which House and Senate members … are more likely to support trade liberalization than House representatives. However, this result does not hold for the …