The political economy of international trade and trade policy – at both the domestic and international levels – has spawned a vast literature from both economists and political scientists. This two volume set includes seminal contributions to our understanding of international...

The effects of economies of scale in government, trade openness, preference heterogeneity, and regime type are used to explain why the average size of states within the international system nearly doubled between 1816 and 1876 and then contracted over the 20th century. No one variable appears to...